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Value Engineering and Design For Excellence

Pam Vecellio • April 21, 2021

“Value Engineering and Design for Excellence”, teaches you how to help teams get involved in improvement and create immediate, sustainable product and operation improvements. 

Value Engineering and Design for Excellence

Goal:

To increase your knowledge and skills of the Value Engineering and Design for Excellence methods and be able to use it to critically analyze the value of every product component, decrease product, processing, and operating costs.

Benefits:

  • Engage team members in improving the process, product, or service.
  • Increase pride and ownership of improved products.
  • Identify component and assembly design changes that significantly reduces product costs.
  • Reduce operating costs.
  • Increase margin and profitability of products.
  • One year CI Community of Practice membership.

Agenda:

Training: 40 hours of education and application. Participants bring a scenario to class on which to focus and practice.

Application and Coaching: 48 hours of on-site event co-lead. One-on-one coaching until results are achieved.

Certification: Participation in this course and completion of 1 project = Continuous Improvement VE/Df(x) Black Belt Certification.

Training
1.     The role of a Continual Improvement Champion in leading the method
2.     How to lead a team through the Value Engineering process a) Confirming and Preparing the team, b) How to perform the process, c) Gather and analysis current state data (customer, regulatory, costs and processes (procure, fabricate, assemble, inspect, rework, ship, warranty)), d) Functional analysis, e) Identifying alternative ways to satisfy functions, f) Prioritizing, selecting, testing, and implementing improvements
3.     How to lead a team through the Design for Excellence process a) How to perform the process, b) Cost analysis, c) Define “x”, d) Evaluate current practices, e) Identifying, prioritizing, and selecting cost reduction areas, f) Testing and implementing improvements
Application with the team
•  One-on-one coaching to confirm/prepare for initial application
•  On-site project, with coach as co-lead (real, immediate application and results)
Certification (after completion of additional project)
•  Review of project selection (Confirm/Prepare)
•  Project documentation review and team survey & CERTIFICATION RECOGNITION!
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