Product Development Workshops

*Jointly with Goldratt Institute

PD1 - DFM and DFA for Effective Product Development Workshop (1/2 - Day)
 

Course Description: This workshop forcuses on how to effectively manage the product design process.DFMA is a systematic design evaluation process that is used to improve part design and part manufacture early in the design process.The DFMA process is done by a team rather than by a single engineer. The DFMA process team is a cross-functional team from all aspects of design and manufacturing.The course outline is as follows:

1. Sequential Product Development vs. Concurrent Product Development
2. Design for Manufacture and Assembly and Methodology
3. Design for Manual Assembly
4. Functional Criteria Analysis
5. Material Handling Analysis
6. Insertion Analysis
7. Product Design for Assembly

Dates:   By arrangement

Location:   On-site or PMC Offices, Dearborn, Michigan

Cost*:   $300.00 per person or $1,500/workshop

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PD2 - Modular Product Design Methodology Workshop (1/2 - Day)

Course Description: Workshop focuses on product design and impact of modularity.Modular design is a design technique that can be used to develop complex products using similar components.Components used in a modular product must have features that enable them to be coupled together to form a complex product. Modular design can be viewed as the process of producing units that perform discrete functions, then connecting the units together to provide a variety of functions.The course is as follows:

1. Product Design Life Cycle
2. Requirement Analysis
3. Specification Analysis
4. Conceptual and Detail Design
5. Modular Design
6. Decomposition Analysis
7. Classification and Clustering
8. Product Design for Modularity
9. Product Requirement Analysis
10. Operational Functional Requirements
11. General Functional Requirements
12. Product Level Specifications
13. Functional Characteristics
14. Physical Characteristics
15. Case Study: Gear Drive System

Dates:   By arrangement

Location:   On-site or PMC Offices, Dearborn, Michigan

Cost*:   $300.00 per person or $1,500/workshop

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PD3 - Project Management: The TOC/Critical Chain Way Workshop* (1 - Day)
*Jointly with Goldratt Institute

Course Description: This interactive workshop provides an overview of the TOC/Critical Chain approach to the management of single and multi-project environments with specific emphasis on the issues faced in complex, new product development organizations.Through exercises, simulations and extensive group interaction, the class derives the root causes of many of the problems faced in today's project and program management environments as well as how the Critical Chain Systems Approach help overcome these issues.Additionally, the workshop discusses how to implement the TOC/Critical Chain approach including the cultural and behavioral issues, implementation obstacles and upper management issues inherent in this type of endeavor which must be highlighted and overcome to achieve success.Specific examples, including metrics, reports developed, results achieved, and obstacles encountered by current and past new product development clients of the Goldratt Institute (e.g., Seagate Technology, Synergis Technologies, Lucent Technologies, Eaton Corporation, Eli Lilly) will be discussed.Finally, the issue of project management as the tip of the product development iceberg will be discussed and put into context within the entire new product development chain of portfolio management-pipeline management-Project management.

Who Should Attend: Those responsible for program and project management, product development team members, and product development managers.

Course Material:

1. Participant Workbook

Prerequisite: If possible, the participants should read "Critical Chain" by Eli Goldratt in advance of the workshop.

Dates:   By arrangement

Location:   On-site or PMC Offices, Dearborn, Michigan

Cost*:   $595.00 per person

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PD4 - Project Management for IT Professionals Workshop (2 - Days)

Course Outline:

Day OneProject management (PM) basics

1. Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK: Project Management Institute)
2. Project lifecycle and tradeoff triangle
3. Requirements definition
4. Make vs. Buy/Outsourcing/Contracting
5. Proposal writing
6. Project culture, project maturity model, learning theory
7. Project scope, time, cost, quality, risk, resource and procurement management
8. Methodology for each major IT project type
9. Rapid application development methodologies
10. Change management; coping with change, causality and complexity
11. Quality assurance, Quality gates, checklists
12. Senge's Systems Thinking and Goldratt's Thinking Process vis-୶is projects
13. Human Resources and Team Development
14. Organizational structures

Day Two Tools, Techniques, Tips and Technologies

1. Work Breakdown structure
2. Gantt chart?making IT Projects Visible
3. Network diagram
4. Cost rollup and calculations
5. MS Project Tutorial: Project Planning
6. Basics of IT Project Execution and Control
7. Earned Value Analysis
8. MS Project Tutorial: Project Execution and Control
9. Contract Administration
10. Project Closeout and Termination
11. Best practices
12. Why IT projects often fail
13. Project personnel skills and competencies
14. Continuous and innovative process improvement and its relation to IT projects

Course Material:

1. Course material provided to attendees

Dates:   By arrangement

Location:   On-site or PMC Offices, Dearborn, Michigan

Cost*:   $1000.00 per person or $5,500/workshop

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PD5/SW2 - Introduction to System Thinking and System Dynamics Workshop (2-Days)

Course Outline:

Day One

1. Introduction to System Thinking and System Dynamic
2. Problems, Models, Decisions and Systems
3. Peter Senge's Five Disciplines
   • Personal Mastery
   • Mental Models
   • Shared Vision
   • Team Learning
   • Systems Thinking
4. Why Systems Thinking?the Fifth Discipline
5. Implications for Management and Leadership
6. Relation to Knowledge Management and Data Warehousing
7. Finding sources

Day Two

1. Delineating variables
2. Causal Loop Diagramming
3. Stock-and-Flow Diagrams
4. Translating Causal Loop Diagrams to Stock-and-Flow Diagrams
5. Using VENSIM
   • Representing stocks
   • Representing rates and flows
   • Representing parameters
6. More VENSIM Table Functions and Delays
7. Sensitivity and VENSIM
8. Best Practices
9. Wrap up

Course Material:

1. Course material provided to attendees

Dates:   By arrangement

Location:   On-site or PMC Offices, Dearborn, Michigan

Cost*:   $1000 per person or $5,500/workshop

*Workshop fees noted are subject to change based on class size, location, etc.