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Lean Product Development

Lean Product Development

Kongsberg - Part time

Lean is perhaps the most important concept that has been introduced to increase efficiency in manufacturing in modern times. This study is designed to fit both industry workers and traditional students with a common desire to learn more.

Study facts

  • Progression of study: Part time
  • Campus: Kongsberg
  • Teaching model: Session-based
  • Study level: Further education
  • Charge: NOK 16.500,-/22.000,-
  • Credits: 0 or 7,5
  • Closing dates: Expired
  • Start up: Autumn 2020
  • Teaching Language: English

Dates

  • Week 41: 5th - 9th October. We will require a minimum of eight participants to run the course.

The courses are organized as intensive one-week courses each with 5 days of lectures.  During this week, the lectures last from 0830 to 1630 each day. The courses are a mixture of lectures and work in groups.  Masterstudents and others taking courses for credit will work on a written assignment which is due 10 weeks after the end of the course.  A completed course with approved written assignment will give 7.5 studypoints.

What is Lean Product Development?

Lean is perhaps the most important concept that has been introduced to increase efficiency in manufacturing in modern times. In today’s fierce economic climate, many global firms have attempted to expand the lean concept from manufacturing to Product Development (PD) in order to sustain competitiveness. However, PD is very different from manufacturing, and there exist few documented examples of successful implementation of Lean in PD, other than inside Toyota where the term implementation may be somewhat misleading. The reason for this is the basic nature of PD—its purpose, tasks, process, people and perception of value—makes the understanding and application of Lean very different from its counterparts in manufacturing. This course gives the participant key insights into the fundamentals of Lean PD, its implementation, methods and practical tools, following an interactive and practical approach for learning. The overall objective is to define a common starting point for successful implementation and continuous improvement as the most essential part of any Lean strategy in PD.

What you will learn

The course is designed to fit both industry people and traditional students with a common desire to learn more about Lean PD. This course gives the participant knowledge of the following topics:

  • Building sustainable and competitive enterprises through organization, leadership, strategies and operational practices for efficient and effective New-product development (NPD).
  • The basic principles of lean and their translation to functional areas outside manufacturing.
  • Lean product development fundamentals, the understanding of value (creation) and strategies to integrate the production and the knowledge value streams as a means to mitigate project risks.
  • Seeing lean product development as a system within the total enterprise/business system, and understanding the main components and characteristics of such a framework.
  • Insight into the most common tools for applying the lean concept to NPD, including risk mitigation, knowledge management, systematic problem solving and visual planning and management.
  • Taking the concept from theory to industrial practice; including research state-of-the-art, implementation strategies and local demonstrator cases (from select companies).   

Prices

The price for attending a course depends on whether you take the course for credit or not.  To get credit for the course, you need to hand in a written assignment.

  • Alternative 1: Attendance only kr. 16.500,-
  • Alternative 2: Attendance and written assignment kr. 22.000,-

For alternative 2, the price also includes supervision and grading of the written assignment.

Registration

The registration deadline for each course is 2 weeks before course starts.

We accept registrations also after the deadline, provided there are available seats. Each course has a limited number of seats, so please sign up early. We reserve the right to cancel courses with too low participation.

Study Plan

A study plan describes the content, structure and organization of a study programme. To each study plan there is a set of subject plans that describes the different subjects. In the subject plan you will also find a reading list. Below you will find a study model that shows you which subjects that are taught each term. In the study model you'll also find links to each subject plan.

Link to the latest published course plan

Admission requirements

A Bachelor's degree in engineering.

Master level courses require a C average.

The admission requirements are founded on the regulations regarding admission to the University of Southeast Norway.

Any questions?

  • Marianne Gimse Lie
    Program administrator
    Marianne Gimse Lie
    +47 35 57 53 56
  • Gerrit Muller
    Program Chair
    Gerrit Muller
    +47 31 00 89 13

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