Thursday, August 8, 2024 Virtual Conference

Peter Palmér, LPPDE and Juha Tammi, Lean Association of Finland - Welcome and Instructions

Peter and Juha represent the two organization who organize these virtual online events and will moderate the Virtual Summit.

Dan Caputo, Strategist / Technology Portfolio Strategy at HP and
Carolyn Carter, Principal Consultant at CCC – How can LPPD Solve the Problem

Which are the foundational principles of lean product and process development? And how can you use them to solve your problems. This presentation gives a taste of the workshop on the upcoming LPPDE NA 2024 conference in Milwaukee.

Dan Caputo is a strategist, systems thinker, and Lean Product Development practitioner adept at solving complex problems across multiple global sites and all functional areas. 30+ years experience in R&D, Manufacturing, and Procurement specializing in technology development and bringing new products to market. Deep understanding of technology and product system design lifecycles. Recognized internal expert on Lean product development methods and strategic planning. Innovation champion. Proven track record in building team framework, creating partnerships and collaborating across organizations.

Carolyn Carter is Principal Consultant at Carolyn Carter Consulting after an extensive career at the Kimberly-Clark Corporation where she got her experience in Research Product Development with additional focus on Lean and LPPD in Development, and Engineering, Operations and Quality in Manufacturing.

Andy Wagner, Process Engineer, BCA Future Production System at Boeing and
Carolyn Carter, Principal Consultant at CCC – How to Create Visible Knowledge

Based on the system created by the Wright Brothers we learn how they detected their critical knowledge gaps, used their ingenuity to define how to test and build knowledge to ultimately achieve their goal. This presentation gives a taste of the workshop on the upcoming LPPDE NA 2024 conference in Milwaukee.

Andy Wagner has been a student of aerospace production systems for his entire career, striving to understand their technical, business, and human aspects, and how the unique aerospace context influences their performance. A sponge for ideas in this domain, Andy is continually testing approaches against the lens of his current and past work to find novel and hybrid solutions to persistent problems.

• 8+ Years leading automation, producibility and process improvement teams and initiatives
• 12+ Years in manufacturing-technical functions, (process engineer, manufacturing engineer, and quality engineer)
• 17+ Years of collaborative Design-Build engineering experience in aerospace
• Lead, coach, and mentor continuous improvement and integration between engineering and manufacturing
• Focused on understanding problems and root causes to drive meaningful solutions

Carolyn Carter see above.

Geoff Neiley, Director Continuous Product Improvement and CM, Rapiscan Systems – My Transformation Journeys

This is the story of a journey of a newly appointed manager in the mechanical engineering, focusing on the traditional way of working with a waterfall product development system with firm project plans which should be kept. The frustration with the way of working and the results is clear for the manager as well as for the engineers.

Enter, new engineering VP, made the same analysis. Together they attended the LPPDE conference in North Carolina in 2014. At the Monday workshop, they learned about Lean Product and Process Development and these simple, logical principles.
1. Entrepreneurial System Designer
2. Teams of Responsible Experts
3. Cadence Pull and Flow
4. Set Based Innovation
They also picked up some key books and this way the journey of reshaping their Product
Development process started! and the journey still continue.

Geoff Neiley has been in the mechanical engineering field for 30 years. After graduating from the University of Maine, Orono, he learned much about the custom equipment business at NESLAB Instruments designing water chilling systems. Following this he spent 15 years working for BTU International where he designed and lead projects for conveyorized furnaces using in the electronics and solar industry. During this time, he earned his master’s in mechanical engineering at the University of Massachusetts, Lowell. It was at BTU where Geoff began to see the value of concurrent engineering. Geoff joined AS&E in 2011 where he led the mechanical team to introduce state-or-the-art x-ray products for the security market. Three years after joining AS&E (now Rapiscan Systems) in 2011, the leadership team introduced the concept of Lean Product Development. Geoff joined the leadership team reading many Lean PD books, inviting Lead PD practitioners to AS&E and attending LPPDE for several consecutive years. AS&E has roundly embraced the concurrent engineering aspects of Lean PD focusing greatly of Set-Base Innovation and cross-functional collaboration with our supply chain and manufacturing team. In 2022, Geoff took the role of Director of Continuous Product Improvement and Configuration Management. In his new role, he continues to leverage his learning from 8-years for practicing LPPD. Geoff has been a member of the board of Lean Product and Process Development Exchange since 2019. Today he is still learning and experimenting with lean processes and enjoys the pride felt in enabling a cross-functional team to achieve challenging, rewarding goals.

Final reflections and remarks

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By Juha Tammi & Peter Palmér

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