Description
Lean Systems Engineering (SE) Training covers how and when systems engineering can most effectively and efficiently add value throughout a program’s lifecycle (SDLC). Lean Thinking (Lean) is the dynamic, knowledge driven and customer-focused process to eliminatate waste and to create values.
With SE and Lean, organizations can create a superior systems engineering process or Lean Systems Engineering.
Course Outline
Basics of LEAN Systems Engineering (SE)
- Introduction
- Motivation and Background
- Lean Problems
- Waste (e.g., non-value added)
- Focusing on “value added” and removing waste
- Measuring value and waste
- Lean as a quality approach
- What is Lean?
- Concepts behind Lean System Thinking
- Lean System Thinking can reduce program cost, risk and duration
- Concepts behind Lean Thinking and Lean SE
Lean Systems Thinking and Lean Engineering
- Lean manufacturing
- Effective Product Development and Systems Engineering
- Systems Engineering as a process for creating complex systems
- Waste and Inefficiencies in SE
- Applying Lean Thinking to SE
- Foundation of Lean SE
- Superior SE Process
- Lean Principles
- Lean Enablers for SE
- From TQM to Six Sigma and Lean
- Lean Six Sigma
- Lean in Product Development (LPD)
- Lean Project Planning, Monitoring and Control
- Integrated Project Management
- Risk Management
- Supplier Agreement Management
- Lean Systems Engineering Working Group of INCOSE
- Focus and Approach
Overview of SE processes
- Typical SE Activities
- SE Activities
- SE Technical Management
- System Design
- Product Realization
- Technical Analysis and Evaluation
- Analyses Including
- SE Product Control
- SE Process Control
- System Post-Implementation Support
Lean Systems Engineering (SE)
- SE and Lean Thinking
- Steps of Lean Thinking
- Common goal of delivering product or system lifecycle value to the customer
- Deliver quality products
- Minimum use of resources
- Waste minimization and flexibility
- Steps in production of high quality affordable products
- Short development and production lead times
- Lean Systems Engineering (SE) Activities
Lean SE Value Phases
- Value Identification
- Value Proposition
- Value Delivery
Simplified Lean Systems Engineering Process
- Traditional SE Process Steps mapped to Lean Thinking
- Allocation of functions and “budgets” to subsystems
- Interface management and control
- IPPD
- Trade studies
- Decision gates or milestones
- Cost management
- Risk management
- Lifecycle perspective
Fundamentals For Developing a Lean Process
- Specify value
- VSM (Value Stream Map)
- Make value flow continuously
- Let customers pull value
- Pursue perfection
- Examples of Value Metrics
- Performance
- Cost
- Schedule
- Continuous Improvement