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:
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.
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.