Brian Prasad, Instructor

The 3-day course covers topics related to "examples of significant cost savings," "reduced product development schedules" and "establishing the new working or management responsibility." You will learn the fundamental techniques and concepts of Concurrent Enterprising and the major performance indicators to meeting the world-class competitiveness challenges. You will learn eight proven techniques to bring new products to market faster. Process reengineering will help you discover your company’s strengths & weaknesses and techniques to overcome them. You will be able to determine which tasks you are doing well, which tasks you need to reengineer, and whether it makes sense to automate as-is or after it is re-engineered.

Comprehensive course notes will be provided, as well as copies of the instructor’s two-volume text Concurrent Engineering Fundamentals.

Instructor

Brian Prasad is a Visiting Professor at California Institute of Technology, author of several books, and managing editor of the Int. Journal of Concurrent Engineering: Research & Applications. He is a senior executive consultant, chief knowledge officer and on the Board of Advisors to many large fortune 500 companies including GM, GE and EDS. He has secured and managed large funded research from many government and private sources. He is a syndicated columnist for publications including Value-based Management, Business Process Management, Journal of Manufacturing Systems, and Industrial Knowledge Management, and taught at UCI and California State University Fullerton, School of Engineering. Until December of 2000, Dr. Prasad was the Director, Knowledge-based Engineering Product Business Unit at Electronic Data Systems.

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What You Will Learn

Learn techniques and concepts of achieving manufacturing excellence through the implementation, application and management of CONCURRENT ENTERPRISING. Discover exactly how concurrent enterprising has helped manufacturers and suppliers achieve stunning results in slashing design and production time, while increasing product quality. Gain an understanding of:

• Theory and philosophy of CONCURRENT ENTERPRISING.
• Barriers of CE and how to overcome them.
• Planning the transition of CEs.
• Reducing organizational and cultural barriers to CE implementation.
• Ways of reducing product cycle time and time to market.
• How to increase customer satisfaction and market share through CE, reduction in engineering change orders or reworks.
• Strategies for selecting staffing and managing multi-disciplinary functional project-teams.
• Principles of DFA/DFM for parts reduction and assembly, principles of designing Statistical Experiments and Robust Design.
• How to ensure "quality by design" as opposed to quality-inspection at the end-of-the-line.
• Design for X concepts (e.g., DFM, DFA, DFS, etc.).
• Pinpoint organization change and the effects of new engineering order.
• How to handle cooperative versus adversary situation.

Emphasis will be placed on issues that inhibit productivity or time to market. There are five classes of issues involved: Management, Operational, Processing, People and Technology. Processing issues often are of great concern in CE, because materials, product, and manufacturing processes are considered simultaneously.

Course Outline

Concurrent Engineering/Enterprising (CE) is structured as a 3-day intensive course. This course will tell you how to measure your enterprise progress and how to institutionalize a plan for organizational improvement and cooperative product development. You will learn how to make improvements in key categories such as quality, cost effectiveness, DFX, responsiveness, and customer satisfaction.

1. Manufacturing Competitiveness, Life-cycle management, Process Re-engineering. Topics include:
   • Japan Transformation from rigid culture-driven company to world leader in quality.
   • Eight fundamental principles on which CE is founded.
   • Modeling the CE environment and its five essential components.
   • Accounting for Seven C's to ensure cooperation among work-groups.
   • Seven primary influencing agents for achieving concurrency and simultaneity.
   • Cooperative work-group environment spanned by four concurrent teams: logical, personnel, virtual, and technological.

2. Concurrent Enterprising Techniques, Cooperative Workgroups, Systems Engineering. What to capture and how to capture information — models of the product, process, enterprise, specifications and the team — so that they can be best leveraged and utilized for carrying out downstream operations such as manufacturing.

3. Information Modeling, The Whole System, Taxonomy of Product Realization. Process taxonomy is necessary to adequately classify, distribute and distinguish differences in behaviors of complex enterprise integration systems. The innermost core of this process taxonomy is its foundation, which has four supporting elements: models, methods, metrics and measures.

Tuition

Tuition for this three-day course is $1495 per person at one of our scheduled public courses. Onsite pricing is available. Please call us at 410-531-6034 or send an email to ati@ATIcourses.com.

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