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LAI Lean Academy® Seminar: Engineering [PI.211s]
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Date: July 16-17, 2009 | Tuition: $1,200 (tentative) | Continuing Education Units (CEUs): 1.0
Course Summary
This course is a supplement to the three-day Lean Academy® Short Course covering additional topics in Lean Engineering and Product Development. The course will be built around a lean engineering framework, emphasizing the need to select the right design to meet stakeholder needs, perform engineering work in an efficient way within an efficiently designed organization, and integrate with the larger lean enterprise. The course material is based on the work of the Lean Aerospace Initiative at MIT, the extensive experience of the instructors, and the latest literature.
Specific topics covered will include the Lean Engineering framework, an introduction to tradespace analysis, how lean applies to product development processes, value stream mapping for product development (PDVSM), organizational design for lean, and integrating with the lean enterprise.
Benefits: Participants will leave with the ability to apply lean concepts to engineering processes. In the context of a leaning organization, this knowledge will greatly facilitate lean application to engineering and product development. In the context of a more traditional organization it should provide a vision for the future.
Prerequisite: LAI Lean Academy® Short Course or other lean education. This course assumes a fundamental understanding of lean thinking, terminology and awareness of lean tools and concepts that can be applied across an enterprise.
Fundamentals: Core concepts, understandings and tools (60%)
Latest Developments: Recent advances and future trends (20%)
Industry Applications: Linking theory and real-world (20%)
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 (50%)
Specialized: Assumes experience in practice area or field (50%)
Learning Objectives
Upon completing this seminar, students will be able to:
- Recognize the Lean Engineering Framework.
- Describe how tradespace analysis can be used to satisfy customers while balancing stakeholder needs.
- Recognize how lean applies to engineering and other non-production processes within an overall enterprise.
- Apply value stream mapping and other basic lean tools to engineering.
- Analyze an engineering process to identify sources of waste.
- Distinguish between organizational factors which impact implementation of lean engineering practices.
Who Should Attend
Engineering leaders and change agents that expect to lead lean change, and engineers who expect to execute it, such as:
- Managers of engineering departments
- Engineering personnel with responsibility for adopting lean six sigma techniques
- Academics teaching engineering process design
- Consultants involved in improving engineering processes
- LAI Lean Academy® Alumni from engineering departments
Program Outline
The course will be primarily a lecture course, but will be broken up by several hands-on demonstrations and exercises, and discussion of applications to participants' real jobs or other experiences. The curriculum will include:
- The Lean Engineering Framework
- Trade Space Exploration (with discussion and exercise)
- Application of Lean To PD
- PD Value Stream Mapping (PDVSM) (with exercise)
- Organizational Design
- Integrating and serving the Lean Enterprise (with exercise and discussion)
Participants will receive a coursebook and The Product Development Value Stream Mapping Manual.
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.
Eric S. Rebentisch
Eric Rebentisch, Ph.D. is a research associate at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Center for Technology, Policy, and Industrial Development and in the Lean Advancement Initiative (LAI). He is responsible for research and tool development in LAI’s Enterprise Product Development group. His research activities focus on the development and management of enterprise technical competencies, including knowledge management and knowledge transfer, intellectual capital management, long-term transformation of enterprise capabilities, the “fuzzy front end” of product development, system architecting (including standardization, reusability, and commonality), and strategies for managing product development in an unstable environment. He has played a major role in developing LAI research findings into policy recommendations and deploying them to the US Government, and in facilitating enterprise-level value-stream mapping and transformation events involving LAI consortium stakeholders.
He is also a senior projects engineer at Metis Design Corporation (MDC) in Cambridge, MA. There he primarily is involved in the deployment of the Lean Enterprise Value (LEV) and Lean Enterprise Product Development (LEPD) simulation-based training, which he co-developed, to train managers and engineers in the US aerospace industry in lean enterprise principles and practices and to facilitate improvement initiatives. He received a doctorate in the Management of Technological Innovation from the Sloan School of Management at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, a Master’s degree in Organizational Behavior from Brigham Young University, and a Bachelor of Science degree in Aerospace Engineering from the California State Polytechnic University, Pomona. Prior to academia, he worked in the aircraft industry as a propulsion engineer.
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.
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