The Lean 3P Advantage : A Practitioner's Guide to The Production Preparation Process

How do you take talented engineers and surround them with the elements needed to create brilliant designs that lead to market-changing products? Lean 3P is how.

Written from an operations perspective, The Lean 3P Advantage : A Practitioner’s Guide to the Production Preparation Process explains how to build collaborative thinking and innovation into the front end of the design process. Describing how to develop successful new products concurrently with new operations, the book illustrates real-world scenarios with numerous examples and case studies to help newcomers succeed the first time around. For those familiar with 3P, the book supplies the basis to explore Evergreen 3P - a process for applying 3P to small-scale design projects for similar benefits.

• Details the 3P Lean Design process, explaining how and why it works so effectively
• Includes case studies and examples of real-world applications
• Presents time-tested methods based on the combined experience of numerous practicing companies

Coverage includes product planning and evaluation criteria, selection of alternatives, timing considerations, construction of prototypes, and measuring effectiveness. This book will help you and your team develop holistic designs that foster innovation and deliver products and production operations that effectively utilize people and exceed the expectations of all stakeholders.

Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction

Chapter 1 : Lean 3P Design Concepts
Chapter 2 : Lean 3P’s Place in the Product Development Process
Chapter 3 : Applying Lean 3P Design and Gaining Leverage
Chapter 4 : Getting Started
Chapter 5 : The Countdown and Overview of the 3P Event Week
Chapter 6 : Kickoff, Charter, and 3P Goals
Chapter 7 : Product Planning and Process Evaluation Criteria
Chapter 8 : Defining Value-Adding Functions
Chapter 9 : Flow Diagrams, Developing Seven Alternatives, and Selection of the Better Three Alternatives
Chapter 10 : Process at a Glance, Selecting Teams, Constructing the Three Prototypes
Chapter 11 : Rapid Evaluation of the Three Prototypes, Selecting the Final Prototype
Chapter 12 : Developing the Final Prototype, Incorporating Evaluation Criteria, and Measuring Effectiveness - Final Report-Out
Chapter 13 : 3P Project Management, Potholes and Stumbling Blocks
Chapter 14 : Evergreen Lean 3P Design, Conclusions

Appendix
1 : Flow Diagram of Lean 3P Design Process
2 : Lean 3P Event Charter Template
3 : Lean 3P Event Materials Checklist
4 : Lean 3P Pre-Event Activity Checklist
5 : Children’s Book Selections
6 : Potential Design Evaluation Criteria
7 : Potential Design Evaluation Criteria Checklist
8 : Seven Alternatives Template
9 : Seven Alternatives with Evaluation Criteria Template
10 : Process at a Glance Template
11 : Process at a Glance with Evaluation Criteria Template
12 : Works Cited and Bibliography

Index
The Author


Chapter 1 : Lean 3P Design Concepts
Chapter 2 : Lean 3P’s Place in the Product Development Process
Chapter 3 : Applying Lean 3P Design and Gaining Leverage
Chapter 4 : Getting Started
Chapter 5 : The Countdown and Overview of the 3P Event Week
Chapter 6 : Kickoff, Charter, and 3P Goals
Chapter 7 : Product Planning and Process Evaluation Criteria
Chapter 8 : Defining Value-Adding Functions
Chapter 9 : Flow Diagrams, Developing Seven Alternatives, and Selection of the Better Three Alternatives
Chapter 10 : Process at a Glance, Selecting Teams, Constructing the Three Prototypes
Chapter 11 : Rapid Evaluation of the Three Prototypes, Selecting the Final Prototype
Chapter 12 : Developing the Final Prototype, Incorporating Evaluation Criteria, and Measuring Effectiveness - Final Report-Out
Chapter 13 : 3P Project Management, Potholes and Stumbling Blocks
Chapter 14 : Evergreen Lean 3P Design, Conclusions

Appendix
1 : Lean 3P Event Charter Template
2 : Flow Diagram of Lean 3P Design Process
3 : Lean 3P Event Materials Checklist
4 : Lean 3P Pre-Event Activity Checklist
5 : Children’s Book Selections
6 : Potential Design Evaluation Criteria
7 : Potential Design Evaluation Criteria Checklist
8 : Seven Alternatives Template
9 : Seven Alternatives with Evaluation Criteria Template
10 : Process at a Glance Template
11 : Process at a Glance with Evaluation Criteria Template
12 : Works Cited and Bibliography

Index