by Norbert Majerus | Sep 20, 2022 | Lean Product Development
In the article “Unlearning What Toyota Taught Us,”1 author John McElroy lauds Tesla’s success with electric vehicles and wonders where Toyota has been. He specifically quotes the book The Toyota Product Development System2 when describing the Toyota product...
by Durward K. Sobek II | Aug 29, 2022 | Lean Product Development
3D solid modeling. Integrated product simulation. Digital twins. Multi-disciplinary Analysis and Optimization (MDAO). Computerized tools for product design and development are proliferating and advancing in capabilities at an ever-increasing pace. The capabilities of...
by Carolyn Carter | Aug 16, 2022 | Lean Product Development
For the practitioners of Visual Management (VM), we would like to initiate a dialogue on potential opportunities to what we believe would further VM and reflect with you on the challenges around implementation. We are breaking this blog into parts, the first will...
by Bob Stavig | Jul 17, 2022 | Lean Product Development
Measure twice, cut once. It is this adage that can help us learn through the development process towards maximizing the value delivered with a product or service. However, when our efforts do not turn out the way we expect we have the opportunity to develop the...
by Geoff Neiley | Jun 21, 2022 | Lean Product Development
A few years ago, at LPPDE NA, I sat at a discussion table with Jim Morgan. The subject at this table was the Chief Engineering role in an organization. He shared that as a chief engineer at Ford he wanted to build “Towering Technical Competency” in the engineering...
by Peter Palmer | Jun 6, 2022 | Lean Product Development
As usual the journey from idea to final conference is a long one, this time much longer though. That is if we talk about the physical, in-person, conference. The first plan to have an in-person conference in Helsinki was for May 2020 where we postponed the conference...
