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LAI Lean Academy® Short Course [PI.23s]
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Date: July 13-15, 2009 | Tuition: $2,100 (tentative) | Continuing Education Units (CEUs): 2.5
Course Summary
The LAI Lean Academy® Short Course
This course will provide a hands-on introduction to lean and six sigma fundamentals. The LAI Lean Academy® Course was originally designed for the aerospace industry and the concepts are applicable to many industries and functional areas. The LAI Lean Academy® has been delivered in many different organizations including: Rolls Royce Indianapolis; Boeing; Northrop Grumman; Textron; Dover and Eglin Air Force Bases; and The Universities of Alabama Huntsville, Iowa, Missouri Rolla and USC. Graduates from the LAI Lean Academy® have a very positive response to the course:
- “Empowering, practical, critical.”
- “It was a great experience. The networking was great and I learned a lot! And the best part was it was fun!!”
- “I learned about process improvement, why it's important, how to do it, and what the benefits are.”
- “Fun, educational, interesting, exciting. Lean can be applied in any aspect of business/life. I see lots of room for Lean in my department.”
• What is Lean Thinking?
Lean Thinking is the dynamic, knowledge-driven, and customer focused process through which all people in a defined enterprise continuously eliminate waste with the goal of creating value. More than ever, today's organizations need to operate in the most economical fashion, taking less time to create and deliver products while improving customer satisfaction. The term "lean" was coined by researchers in MIT's International Motor Vehicle Program to describe the production paradigm emerging from the Japanese automotive industry. However, lean thinking is not specific to the automotive or any other sector or operation. A lean enterprise, or production system, is one that eliminates waste and optimizes the value delivered to all of its stakeholders.
• Benefits
This class directly prepares participants for involvement in lean activities back in their jobs. Participants will be able to recognize the value and importance of lean to an organization's operations and identify opportunities for improvement back on their jobs. As a result of this class, participants will be able to contribute to improvement implementation projects in their own institution/government agency/industry operations.
Fundamentals: Core concepts, understandings and tools (70%)
Latest Developments: Recent advances and future trends (5%)
Industry Applications: Linking theory and real-world (25%)
Lecture: Delivery of material in a lecture format (60%)
Discussion or Groupwork: Participatory learning (20%)
Labs: Non computer hands-on simulations (20%)
Introductory: Appropriate for a general audience (100%)
Learning Objectives
At the end of this class, participants will be able to:
- Articulate the definition of lean terminology.
- Recall a brief history of lean thinking in the aerospace industry.
- Examine and integrate the five fundamentals of lean thinking.
- Clarify internal and external customers.
- Create value stream maps.
- Use lean concepts and quality tools.
- Explain the importance of the role that people play in organizational change.
- Relate lean principles to office processes, quality management, engineering and supply chain management.
- Recognize opportunities for lean improvements.
- Construct implementation plans for a lean project.
- Contribute to an organization’s improvement projects.
Who Should Attend
Lean concepts are appropriate for any functional area within an organization. Lean principles can be applied in every aspect of a business/government/non-profit operation, including manufacturing and factory management, logistics and supplier management, customer relations, office processes, product design and engineering, and curriculum design and delivery. There is no prerequisite for this class.
People who may benefit from this course include:
• Project managers and individual contributors who are new to lean concepts
• Senior program managers and team members engaged in organizational change.
• Engineers and engineering managers
• Project managers in Logistics, Quality and Supply Chain Management
• First and second level managers in manufacturing operations
• Government Air Force or Navy employees working on continuous improvement programs such as AFSO21, AirSpeed and others
• U.S. Army divisions working on six sigma, lean and other improvement projects
• Academic faculty and staff who are striving to incorporate lean principles into their curriculum and institutional processes
• Non-profit leaders embarking on change activities
* Academic Promotion
The course has been successfully delivered by faculty to MBA students, undergraduate students and graduate students across the country at several universities.
The developers of this curriculum have designed the course in a modular format so that faculty members might be able to incorporate relevant materials into their existing curriculum in order to bring lean concepts to their students.
A special academic promotion allows a limited number of faculty members to participate in this course at a reduced cost. Faculty who attend will also be able to receive a curriculum CD containing PowerPoint modules for future use in their own classes.
About The Lecturers
Earll Murman
Earll Murman is Ford Professor of Engineering Emeritus in the Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics and the Engineering Systems Division at MIT. He served as Co-Director of the Lean Aerospace Initiative from 1995-2002, as Head of MIT's Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics from 1990-1996, and as Deputy Head from Sept 2005 to June 2006, and as Director of Project Athena from 1988-1991. In addition to his 26 years in academia, his career includes 4 years at the Boeing Company, 6 years with Flow Research Co., and 3 years at NASA's Ames Research Center.
Dr. Murman's professional interests span system engineering, product development, industrial productivity, aerodynamics, computational fluid dynamics, and engineering education. He has published over 90 journal articles and technical papers in these fields. Dr. Murman is the lead author of the book, Lean Enterprise Value: Insights from MIT's Lean Aerospace Initiative, published by Palgrave in March 2002. Lean Enterprise Value, a definitive account of the past and future implementation of lean principles and practices in the aerospace domain, received the 2003 Best Engineering Sciences Book Award from the International Astronautical Academy. His 1971 paper with Julian Cole on “Calculation of Plane Steady Transonic Flow” is a Citation Classic and recognized as a landmark contribution to the field of Computational Fluid Dynamics.
Dr. Murman graduated summa cum laude in Aeronautical Engineering from Princeton University in 1963 and received his PhD in Aerospace Engineering from Princeton in 1967. He is a member of the U.S. National Academy of Engineering, a foreign member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences, a Fellow of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, a Fellow of the Royal Aeronautical Society, and member of INCOSE and the ASEE.
Hugh McManus
Hugh McManus is a Senior Special Projects Engineer at Metis Design, applying modern product development, business and technical practices to the aerospace industry. He has done pioneering work in application of lean techniques to product development with MIT's Lean Aerospace Initiative (LAI), including leading seminars and workshops, supervising research, and authoring several tools for lean transformation. He is currently facilitating lean short courses and transformation events using a unique business simulation (co-developed with Eric Rebentisch of LAI) to rapidly teach advanced lean concepts, and allow participants to experience lean transformations in a simulated environment. He is also developing, and working with, advanced tools for space system architecture and design.
He recently co-authored a book on lean methods in the Aerospace Industry, Lean Enterprise Value, and published several major tools and reports, including the LAI tools “Product Development Value Stream Mapping (PDVSM)” and “Product Development Transition to Lean (PDTTL),” and an extensive report on new Space System Architecture methods. He has also co-edited a book on applications of polymer composite materials, has been an associate editor of the AIAA Journal of Spacecraft and Rockets, and has published over 60 peer-reviewed journal and conference publications. Recent publications include “Value Stream Analysis and Mapping for Product Development” (with R. Millard), “New Methods for Rapid Architecture Selection and Conceptual Design” (with D. Hastings and J. Warmkessel), “A Framework for Understanding Uncertainty and its Mitigation and Exploitation in Complex Systems” (with D. Hastings) and “Lean Engineering: Doing the Right Thing Right” (with A. Haggerty and E. Murman).
Dr. McManus has also taught and practiced aerospace structures and materials. He was a structural engineer at Lockheed Missiles and Space Company (now a division of Lockheed Martin), and at Kaman Aerospace for a total of 10 years, and taught structures and materials courses at MIT for 7 years. He remains actively interested in aerospace structural engineering, composite materials, structural health monitoring, and high-temperature polymer materials.
Dr. McManus received a Ph.D. degree in Mechanical Engineering from Stanford University in 1990, and S. B. and S. M. degrees in Aeronautics and Astronautics from MIT in 1980 and 1981. He has worked at Kaman Aerospace (1981-84) and Lockheed Missiles and Space Company (1984-1990), as the MIT Aeronautics and Astronautics Boeing Career Development Professor for 1991-94, the Class of 1943 Career Development Professor for 1994-97, Associate Professor for 1997-98, and as a Principal Research Engineer from 1998-2002. He is an Associate Fellow of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics.
Annalisa Weigel
Prof. Weigel has a dual faculty appointment in the Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics and the Engineering Systems Division at MIT. She is a member of MIT’s Lean Aerospace Initiative, conducting research in the area of lean product development and systems engineering.
Dr. Weigel’s professional experience includes three years supporting the Department of Defense, and two years working on Wall Street. As an engineer at Adroit Systems in Washington, DC she worked in support of the Department of Defense conducting system architecture design and trades studies for satellite communications, satellite operations, and launch vehicles. As a research associate at Lehman Brothers in New York City, she worked in the Aerospace and Defense sector and the Equity Strategy group.
Prof. Weigel teaches graduate courses in systems architecture, space policy, and technology and policy. She also teaches an undergraduate capstone project course in space systems design.
She is affiliated with MIT’s Lean Aerospace Initiative (LAI), the MIT Space Systems Lab, and the National Center of Excellence for Aviation Operations Research (NEXTOR). Her research interests include aerospace systems design and architecting, innovation and change dynamics in the aerospace industry, and aerospace policy.
Dr. Weigel received an SB (1994) and SM (2000) in Aeronautics and Astronautics, and a Ph.D. (2002) in Technology, Management and Policy from MIT. She also received a second SB (1995) in Science, Technology and Society from MIT, and an MA (1998) in International Relations from the George Washington University. She is a member of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, and the International Council on Systems Engineering.
Discounts for LAI Members, Faculty / students
Participants from LAI member organizations are eligible for a 10% discount off any one PI LAI Lean Academy® course and 12.5% off any two PI LAI Lean Academy® courses. To see if your company or government agency is an LAI member, click here.
Students and faculty at any educational institution are eligible for 20% off any one PI LAI Lean Academy® course and 25% off any two PI LAI Lean Academy® courses.
Anyone who is eligible for a discount should note their status (i.e. LAI member, student) and request the discount in the “Goals for taking this professional program” section of the application form. If you have any questions please contact the Professional Institute. Registrants should apply by May 31st to ensure discount to LAI Lean Academy® courses.
