Overview
What you will learn
By taking the Lean Product Development course offered by Cranfield University , you will learn:
- Understand key deference between traditional and lean product development
- Understand and apply lean thinking methodology
- Evaluate and critically assess current and future level of lean practices in an organisation
- Improve innovation through implementation of set-based concurrent engineering
- Understand and apply design for manufacturing and assembly methods
- Understand and apply A3 thinking for design problem-solving
- Understand and apply lean knowledge life-cycle approach to systematically capture, re-use and create knowledge in product development
- Understand and apply trade-off curves to visualise PD knowledge and generate a set of conceptual solutions
- Introduce LeanPD practices in your organisation
Programme Structure
The program focuses on:
- Performance measurement
- Concurrent Engineering
- Lean product development and its enablers
- Lean PD performance measurement: Results of the performance measurement exercise
- Set-based concurrent engineering
- Set-based concurrent engineering
- Lean knowledge life-cycle (LeanKLC)
- A3 thinking for design problem-solving
- A3 thinking for design problem solving
- Trade-off curves (ToC) to enable SBCE
- Trade-off curves to support SBCE
- Opportunities for implementation of LeanPD/SBCE
Key information
Duration
- Full-time
- 5 days
Start dates & application deadlines
- Please enquire for course dates
Language
Delivered
Disciplines
Production and Manufacturing Engineering View 6 other Short Courses in Production and Manufacturing Engineering in United KingdomAcademic requirements
We are not aware of any specific GRE, GMAT or GPA grading score requirements for this programme.
English requirements
We are not aware of any English requirements for this programme.
Student insurance
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Other requirements
General requirements
- Product development and design professionals, product designers and engineers, continuous improvement managers, lean agents, business managers and project managers.
Tuition Fee
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International
1500 GBP/fullTuition FeeBased on the tuition of 1500 GBP for the full programme during 5 days. -
National
1500 GBP/fullTuition FeeBased on the tuition of 1500 GBP for the full programme during 5 days.
Living costs for Cranfield
The living costs include the total expenses per month, covering accommodation, public transportation, utilities (electricity, internet), books and groceries.