Thursday, September 7, 2023 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.

Geoff Neiley, Rapiscan Systems and Peter Palmér , Scania - LPPD and Agile, Hardware / Software Interaction

This presentation focuses on the question: What happens when you are on a clear LPPD journey and suddenly Agile appear as a silver bullet? and how to take advantage of the challenge.

Today “Agile” is a hot topic and for many people meaning “good”. We will start by describing the current situation at two stable companies working with LPPD (Rapiscan and Scania) and discuss the possibilities, threats and problems that agile brings to the table, both for software as well as hardware development. We will share many practical examples and solutions, both those who worked and those who didn´t and what we can learn from both.

Geoff Neiley has been in the mechanical engineering field for 25 years, starting at NESLAB Instruments designing water chilling systems. After he spent 15 years working for BTU International where he began to see the reap the values of concurrent engineering.

3 years after joining AS&E 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. Today he is still learning and experimenting with lean processes and enjoys the pride felt in the team by enabling cross-functional to achieve challenging, rewarding goals.

Peter Palmér has extensive experience in lean management in both production and product development, as well as experience of leadership in other cultures. With 18 years of experience within production, engineering and quality followed by 20 years in various management positions in product development Peter has many stories to tell. Since the beginning of the 1990es he has been closely involved with the Scania Way development journey both in Sweden and South America.

Peter is a frequent speaker at international and national conferences on the subject about LPPD and leadership. Peter has been working closely with LPPDE since the organization's start 2008 including seven years on the LPPDE board with a second period started 2023. Through LPPDE Peter has organized and chaired or co-chaired many conferences in Europe and in the US. Since the end of 2020 he runs the monthly LPPDE Virtual Summits, a four hour learning exchange with four different speakers. He is a member of various LPD-networks and has co-developed LPD training courses with Chalmers Professional Education and The KTH Royal Institute of Technology.

Larry Navarre, Kettering University – Innovation Performance: The Good, The Bad and The Worthy

This session will introduce the challenges of defining, measuring, and improving performance of the innovation development system. Innovation performance has a reputation for failure. Our organizations expect us to do better. This is an introduction to a workshop later in the conference that will engage you to lead innovation to be worthy of your organization’s resources.

Larry Navarre is a full-time Lecturer at Kettering University teaching courses in innovation development, supply chain management, project management, and business analytics since 2008.  Larry has earned a Bachelor of Business Administration degree from Kent State University (Kent, Ohio) and a Master of Science in Management degree from Purdue University's Krannert Graduate School of Management (West Lafayette, Indiana).  Larry has 20 years of management experience in the steel, machinery, and plastics industries.  His management responsibilities have spanned from Production Supervisor to Director of Global Product Management and Asian Operations. He has worked internationally with customers, suppliers, and colleagues in 20 countries.  Larry is also a managing owner of two family-owned small businesses managing commercial real estate.

Bob Stavig, Retired R&D Project and Program Manager HP – Promoting & Retaining Women in Engineering

Bob Stavig, co author of: Retaining Women in Engineering: The Empowerment of Lean Development will reflect on the challenge of retaining women in engineering. At the current rate, it will take 350 years to achieve gender parity.

During this session, we will focus on 3 aspects of this challenge:

• The Gender Schema (broader than stereotypes) that begin to form as early as 2 years old which shape our expectations and believes of girls and boys which eventually drive career and life choices.
• The current methods of traditional product development, how they create an unlevel playing field for women, and the learnings from medicine. (Women now make up 50% of Med Students.)
• How to apply the six Principles of Lean Development to:
• Significantly improve your organizations business performance.
  • Drive innovation, and
  • Level the playing field for women.

Disclaimer: Bob is not a consultant or a coach, he’s just a guy who wrote a book..

Bob Stavig is a retired HP R&D Project and Program Manager. Experienced in Lean Product and Process Development and Scrum/Agile.

During his 35 year career with Hewlett-Packard, Bob spent the last twenty years in Product Research and Development in various management and technical roles. During sixteen years of that time, he utilized the principles and methods of Lean Development in the delivery of nearly a dozen areas of work within product programs, process development, and technical asset development. Bob considers himself an engineer first and a manager second. In addition, Bob has fifteen years of experience in the areas of: manufacturing development, factory support, factory operational management, and worldwide manufacturing leadership. He has over twenty years of experience working with international partners.

Carolyn Carter, Carolyn Carter Consulting – The Next Level of Visual Management

Carolyn will look into the future and give here view on the next level of Visual Management and which new methods for Lean Product and Process development methods you will need. The focus is on maximizing the value of the Visual Management system.

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.

Carolyn's experience include:

• Leader of Lean Product and Process Development launch across multiple Business Units
• Co-lead of Lean Product and Process Development launch into Research Teams
• Lean Coordinator for initial launch of Lean Culture into Research Team
• Product Developer in programs across multiple businesses
• Product Development Leader for commercialization of large Personal Care Program
• Leadership and development of Process Optimization Program Product Supply for North America and European Personal Care
• Lean Strategic and A3 Problem Solving applications as Quality Manager in Personal Care Manufacturing
• Quality Manager in multiple regulated and non-regulated Personal Care Manufacturing Plants

Final reflections and remarks

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By Juha Tammi & Peter Palmér

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