LAI Lean Engineering Seminar
The LAI Lean Engineering Seminar™ is a 1.5 day intensive coverage of the recently-created and fast growing field of lean application to engineering and product development processes.
The LAI Lean Engineering Seminar™ is often scheduled as a professional education program at MIT. See course description and details at: LAI Lean Engineering Seminar™
Summary of Seiminar Content
- Lean Engineering Introduction: Waste in product development (PD) processes, leverage on the enterprise, role of engineering/PD in the lean enterprise
- Translating Lean Thinking to Engineering: Application of basic lean concepts in the engineering environment, examples of successful applications, existing frameworks for applying lean concepts to engineering
- Selecting the Right Product: Importance of making correct front-end decisions, assessing front-end processes, examples (lean and non-lean), introduction to trade space exploration and integrated concurrent engineering
- Product Lifecycle Value: Systems engineering and requirements flowdown, Design for X, dimensional management, production simulation, product families and commonality
- Efficient Process Execution: Wastes, process view of engineering, examples, Product Development Value Stream Mapping (PDVSM), process data, capacity, parallel processes, planned iterations, improvements
- Engineering Enterprise Integration: Working with customers, suppliers, manufacturers, and across functional silos
All EdNet classes can be customized and offered for an organizational team. For more details or information about the LAI Lean Engineering Seminar™, please contact This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
