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DRM Associates offers an extensive range of
workshops to provide practical training in new product development, the practices and concepts
of IPD/IPPD/CE and various methods and tools to facilitate product development.
Assessing and Improving Product Development
Workshop
This one-half-day workshop covers the methodology for benchmarking best
practices to assess and improve an organization's product development environment
using DRM Associates proven Product Development
Assessment (PDA) methodology and/or the
Product Development Best Practices and Assessment (PDBPA)
software or
IPPD Program Assessment (IPPDPA) software.
Best Practices of Integrated Product Development
Workshop
This one- to three-day workshop is based on our framework of 270 best practices
for product development that we have maintained over the last eight years.
These best practices address the dimensions of strategy, organization, process,
design optimization, and technology tools. The workshop can include exercises
to reinforce the concepts presented. This workshop can be oriented towards
product development professionals and functional managers or a one-day version
can be oriented to executive management.
Concept Development Workshop
This three-day, workshop addresses the process for determining customer
needs and requirements (voice of the customer), developing a product specification,
creating concept alternatives, and evaluating and selecting a preferred
concept approach. The workshop is spaced out over the course of this process to
provide on-the-job training with an actual project.
Design for Manufacturability/Assembly
Workshop
This two- to three-day workshop is oriented to
development personnel. The workshop includes exercises to develop
practical DFMA skills and includes a DFA assessment methodology. The
optional third day can be used to analyze either existing company products
or products under development using either commercial DFM/A software or
our DFA analysis methodology.
Design for Serviceability Workshop
This one- to two-day, practical, hands-on workshop covers the principles of design for
serviceability and maintainability illustrating these principles with numerous examples of
good and bad application examples. The workshop includes exercises to reinforce
understanding of principles. The final exercise uses one or more of your
company's products to analize its serviceability and identify changes
to improve the serviceability of the design.
Design to Cost Workshop
This two-day workshop is oriented towards product development professionals and management
responsible for developing products that meet customer affordability requirements. While
it addresses the concepts of target costing and cost as an independent variable
(CAIV), it primarily focuses on design-to-cost (DTC) and the
tools and methodologies to achieve DTC including use of QFD to
balance cost with product performance/capability, design for manufacturability/assembly, DFX, value analysis,
use of product cost models, attacking indirect costs and
integrating these methodologies into an organization's development process.
An optional third day can be spent applying DTC concepts to the
analysis of company products.
Design of Experiments Workshop
This practical, two-day workshop serves as a broad introduction to
designed experiments including fractional factorial (screening
experiments) and response surface studies. It further teaches you to
perform one type of designed experiment called a screening experiment. A
screening experiment is a systematic approach to identifying the key input
parameters of a process or product that affect the output performance. You
will become proficient at designing, analyzing and interpreting screening
experiments by working three real-life problems.
Integrated Product & Process Development Workshop
This one- to three-day workshop covers the concepts and best practices on IPPD. It is intended for
government contractors, government acquisition organizations, and program
offices. The workshop covers program planning with IPPD; integrated
product teams; integration of subcontractor, contractor and customer;
requirements definition, an IPPD-oriented development process, design
automation technology, and implementing IPPD practices. The workshop can
include exercises to reinforce the concepts presented. This workshop can
be oriented towards customers, program management, product development
professionals and functional managers. The one-day version can be oriented
to executive management.
Managing Product Development Workshop
The one- to three-day workshop presents an integrated
approach to managing product development covering project management, process management,
pipeline management and portfolio management. It is intended for
process imprvement team members, project managers, team leaders, functional managers,
and executive management.
Mistake-Proofing By Design Workshop
This one- to two-day
workshop describes the principles of mistake-proofing or poka-yoke and the
evolutionary step of addressing mistake-proofing during development versus
installing mistake-proofing devices and approaches on the factory floor
after the product has been put into production. The workshop includes many
practical examples to illustrate the principles. The second day includes
exercises to develop mistake-proofing approaches with your current
products and/or conducting a factory walk-through to explore
mistake-proofing opportunities.
Product Data Management Workshop
This one-day workshop describes the elements of product data management
(PDM) systems, discusses how to effectively use a PDM system, and the process
of implementing a product data management system.
Product Development Team/Integrated Product Team
Workshop
This is a one-day program that describes how to effectively form and operate
product development or integrated product teams (PDT/IPT) teams. The workshop
is oriented towards management to provide an understanding of the organizational
environment that leads to effective teams. It covers PDT/IPT composition
and organization, roles and responsibilities, PDT/IPT management, issue
resolution, and the critical success factors for effective PDT's or IPT's.
Quality Function Deployment (QFD) Workshop
This is a two- to three-day, hands-on workshop. Workshop exercises utilizing
actual product hardware are used extensively to develop a practical understanding of how
to use QFD to capture the voice of the customer (VOC), perform competitive analysis, develop a
product strategy, and derive product requirements. Part of the third day can be used to transition
from the classroom to the workplace using QFD with your own products.
Robust Tolerance Analysis Workshop
This two-day workshop teaches you a practical approach for selecting targets and
tolerances for both products and processes in order to improve quality,
reduce costs and reduce variation. Many real world examples are worked in class including the
design of a pump and the setting of a process window for a heat seal
machine. The course provides practical strategies and tools for dealing
with real-world complexities.
Target Costing Workshop
This is a three-day workshop for management and development personnel responsible
for establishing and using a target costing process. It addresses establishing
a target price, determining the target cost, tracking achievement of
the target cost, use of product cost models to support decision-making, and
design-to-cost techniques to achieve cost reduction.
Team Building Workshop
This two-day workshop is
structured with short presentations on each topic and includes extensive
team exercises and interactive learning experiences. It provides team
members and team leaders with specific skills to work together effectively
as part of a product development team/integrated product team.
Team Launch Workshop
This two-day workshop is designed for new or existing teams responsible
for product development. Its objective is to improve team dynamics;
accelerate the stages of growth toward a high performing team; and develop
an understanding of the IPT's responsibilities, plans and team interfaces
with the rest of the extended enterprise. The workshop combines teambuilding
exercises (meeting skills, communication skills, personality styles) and
planning exercises focused at the details of the team function (roles and
relationships, team inputs/outputs, team charter, team deliverables and
schedules). Pre-workshop preparation is required to support workshop exercises.
Team Leader Workshop
This one-day workshop provides an understanding of leadership vs. management,
develops leadership skills, determines team leader responsibilities, teaches
how to motivate people, addresses personality and style differences, and
develops skills to facilitate improvement in teamwork. The workshop combines
leadership exercises and group process exercises to develop leadership,
coaching, and facilitative skills necessary for an effective team leader.
Pre-workshop preparation is required to support workshop exercises.
Value Analysis/Function Analysis Workshop
This one-day workshop covers the concepts and methods of value analysis
or function analysis including the Function Analysis System Technique (FAST).
The workshop includes hands-on exercises to learn by doing and begins the
transition back to the workplace by applying FAST to a real world product
from your company. It is intended for product development professionals
or members of a cost reduction team.
Value Management - SAVE Certified Module 1
The objective of this five-day workshop is to acquaint participants with the methodology
of Value Management (VM) and its decision-making process. Workshop participants should also
expect to develop proposals ready for implementation on any projects
approved for the workshop. This Module I course teaches VM in a hands-on, project-based
manner. During the workshop, participants will engage in "real-time" decision-making using VM tools, to ensure
quality and value while reducing the cost of their projects. Participants
will apply the VM methodology and decision-making skills to an actual
project to gain practical experience using what they learn.
Since this seminar is approved by SAVE International,
individuals planning to become Associate or Certified Value Specialists
need to attend. Upon completion, each participant will be awarded a
certificate and those wishing to take the SAVE AVS exam may do so,
providing advance notice is given.
Voice of the Customer Workshop
This one- to three-day, hands-on workshop addresses the importance of capturing
the voice of the customer (VOC) to drive product development, presents how to undertake various VOC methodologies,
discusses when they should be used, and leads participants through the process of planning how to capture
the VOC. The workshop includes exercises to develop practical experience with
various VOC methods and results in the development of a VOC plan for an actual
product opportunity.
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