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. 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.
1. WHY IPPD? WHY NOW?
- The Driving Forces
- Budgets & Development Cycles
- Acquisition Streamlining
- Integrated Product Development – Achievements by Industry
- A Framework of 180 Best Practices for IPPD
2. IPPD-ORIENTED PROGRAM PLANNING
- An IPPD Approach Determining Customer Needs & Structuring an RFP
- Strategies for Acquisition Streamlining with a Customer Proposal
- Addressing IPPD in a Proposal & Responding to the Perry Memo
- Developing an Integrated Plan Oriented to IPPD
- Top-Down Planning of the WBS, SOW and IPT Structure with IMP/IMS
- IPT Planning and Bottom-Up Validation
- Starting the Program Right with IPPD
- Empowered Project Management & Resourcing the Critical Path
3. ORGANIZING FOR IPPD
- Developing a Program Organization with Integrated Product Teams (IPT’s)
- Role of the Program Management Team
- Role of the System Integration Team (SIT)
- Role of the Integrated Product Team
- Integrating Subcontractors on IPT’s
- Defense Program – Team Structure Case Study
- Evolving the Role of Customer Representatives on IPT’s & SIT’s
- Customer Internal Team Structure
- Planning Manpower Requirements with IPT’s
- Re-orienting Contractor & Customer Management Practices with Teams
- What Empowerment Means & Doesn’t Mean for Contractor and Customer Personnel
- Flattening the Contractor & Customer Organization Structure
- Re-orienting Performance Appraisals & Reward Systems
- Managing & Supporting Teams
- Practical Approaches to Collocation & Virtual Collocation as an Alternative
- “Internal” & “External” Factors Affecting Team Success
- Team Leader Responsibilities
- Developing Effective Team Collabora-tion and Decision-Making
- Collaboration Exercise
- Realistic Team Development and Training
4. DEFINING, MANAGING & FLOWING DOWN REQUIREMENTS
- Understanding the Voice of the Customer as a Starting Point
- Strategies for Insuring Performance-Oriented Requirements
- Requirements & Specifications Manage-ment
- Using QFD to Translate Customer Requirements into Product & Process Characteristics
- Solid Rocket Motor QFD Case Study
- QFD Product Planning Matrix Exercises
- Optional Concept Selection, and Deployment Matrix Exercises
- Integrating Systems Engineering & Quality Function Deployment (QFD)
- Effective Customer Involvement in Defining & Managing Requirements
5. OPTIMIZING PRODUCT & PROCESS DESIGN
- Designing a Producible Product
- Ten Rules of Design for Manufac-turability/Assembly (DFM/A) with Examples
- Developing Producibility Guidelines
- Using DFM/A Analysis Tools
- Designing Quality In
- Process Capability & Variation Reduction
- Optional Process Capability Exercise
- Designing Quality in and Creating a Robust Design through Design of Experiments (DOE)
- DOE Case Study
- A Framework for Quality Engineering
- ยท Design to Low Cost
- Ten Steps to Achieve a Design to Cost (DTC) Program
- Cost as an Independent variable
- A “Should Cost” Approach to System Acquisition & Development
- Establishing & Allocating Cost Targets
- Using Product Cost & Life Cycle Models to Guide Development Decisions
- Using Function Analysis System Technique (FAST) and the Value Analysis Matrix to Maximize Function vs. Cost
- FAST Diagram Exercise
- Activity-Based Costing (ABC) to Improve Decisions Related to Product & Process Design
- Addressing Reliability, Maintainability, Testability and the Life Cycle During Development
6. ENABLING TECHNOLOGY
- Using a Common Digital Product Model
- Product Data Standards & STEP
- Configuration Management with Product Data Management Systems
- CALS & Data Interchange with Customers and Suppliers
- Integrated CAD/CAE Tools to Support IPPD Objectives
- Solids Modeling, Assembly Modeling & Digital Pre-Assembly
- Electrical Design Automation (EDA) Tools & Top-Down Design
- Analysis-Driven Design
- Rapid Prototyping
- Integrating Design and Manufacturing with CAD/CAM
- Knowledge Organization & Design Re-Use
- Avoiding Technology Pitfalls
7. PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT PROCESS
- Establishing a Repeatable (vs. Ad-Hoc) Development Process
- Creating Process Flexibility While Maintaining a Common Baseline Process
- Improving the Development Process with Process Reengineering
- Using IPPD Metrics and Cost/Schedule Performance to Manage & Improve Development
- Integrating Design and Production with an Effective Transition Plan
8. IMPLEMENTATION – MAKING IT HAPPEN
- Assessing Your Product Development Process Against the Best Practices
- Developing an Overall Improvement Plan
- Creating a IPD Environment
- Avoiding the Pitfalls – Applying Lessons Learned