Designing Workshops for the Introduction of Lean Enablers to Engineering Programs

AbstractThere is a large and growing body of knowledge regarding so-called Lean best practices, including most recently in the area of program management and systems engineering. However, there is little elaboration of how these documented best practices are to be introduced to a professional workforce. One way of introducing new practices to a workforce is through the use of training workshops. Such workshops often emerge from training programs or consulting arrangements, but there is no well-defined method or framework to systematically design workshops for the implementation of a new body of knowledge.This study focuses on the development of a framework that facilitates the systematic design of workshops focused specifically on the introduction of Lean principles and practices to program management and the professional workforce in a program environment. The framework is based on a thorough review of literature on training, workshop delivery, and Lean principles, as well as empirical evidence obtained from data collection and interactions with training professionals from industry.The framework provides a systematic design process for workshops, including: a) the assessment of the need for a workshop, b) the definition of workshop goals and objectives, c) the definition of workshop topics, d) the development of an agenda and the theoretical content of the workshops, and e) the selection of the right teaching techniques as well as the right simulations and active learning devices. In each of these steps the framework provides content for the prospective educators.The framework is embodied in an Excel-based tool that allows the user to quickly assemble a structure for the workshop, including the topic, an agenda and defined goals, and also the theoretical content about the Lean principles. Another element of the framework is the designation of the organizational hierarchy levels to be addressed, with educational techniques adapted to each level. The framework was validated through interactions with training professionals in a large automobile manufacturer, and using subject matter experts from a variety of industrial sectors

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Overview • LAI PDVSM 1.0 released • Predecessors in widespread (?) distribution and use (??) in the LAI consortium • Several recent research projects completed using value stream mapping in PD • Kato—Waste in PD • Whitaker—VSM and EVMS • MacKenzie—VSM in USAF SPOs • Evidence of significant PDVSM activities among LAI consortium members • Where do we stand as a learning community? • What are the next steps

Lean Product Development in the Aerospace Enterprise

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Preliminary Observations on Program Instability

This white paper reports emerging findings at the end of Phase I of the Lean Aircraft Initiative in the Policy focus group area. Specifically, it provides details about research on program instability. Its objective is to discuss high-level findings detailing: 1) the relative contribution of different factors to a program’s overall instability; 2) the cost impact of program instability on acquisition programs; and 3) some strategies recommended by program managers for overcoming and/or mitigating the negative effects of program instability on their programs. Because this report comes as this research is underway, this is not meant to be a definitive document on the subject. Rather, is it anticipated that this research may potentially produce a number of reports on program instability-related topics. The government managers of military acquisition programs rated annual budget or production rate changes, changes in requirements, and technical difficulties as the three top contributors, respectively, to program instability. When asked to partition actual variance in their program’s planned cost and schedule to each of these factors, it was found that the combined effects of unplanned budget and requirement changes accounted for 5.2% annual cost growth and 20% total program schedule slip. At a rate of approximately 5% annual cost growth from these factors, it is easy to see that even conservative estimates of the cost benefits to be gained from acquisition reforms and process improvements can quickly be eclipsed by the added cost associated with program instability. Program management practices involving the integration of stakeholders from throughout the value chain into the decision making process were rated the most effective at avoiding program instability. The use of advanced information technologies was rated the most effective at mitigating the negative impact of program instability

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The essay discusses the logic of distinction under the sign of the contemporary culture of difference and proposes a discussion of the relationship between taste and contemporary art. The recent trend toward greater individualization might have rendered social codes more permeable. But this state of affairs is neither the opposite of the standardization nor does it imply that the social logic of distinction has been suspended. It has merely undergone further differentiation, but without abolishing the signifiers of status. On the one hand art as a commodity partakes in the respective developments, on the other, certain strands in contemporary art can also be read as opposing the subject of aesthetic experience to the subject of consumerist taste