• Organization - The SED structure
  • Sales
  • Engineering (manufacturing)
  • Development.  
• Leadership
  • The "Large Project" leader
  • The project leaders for quality and environmental issues
  • Department project leaders.  
• Cross-Functional New Product Introduction Teams
  • How to pick them
  • How they work
• Product Goals
  • Critical characteristics
  • Changes to critical characteristics
  • Impact
    • Safety
    • The environment
    • Quality
    • Cost
    • Delivery
    • Morale.
• The development plan
  • Schedules
  • Evaluation gates
• Evaluation events - The four major evaluations
• Quality - Why quality has priority over cost in the year of the product launch. 
• Target costing
  • Continuous gap analysis
  • Plan versus actual. 
• Maker layout - Make versus buy decision analysis for components.
• Supplier product development
• Advanced product quality planning - What it is and how it works. 
• Supplier audits
  • Evaluating suppliers
  • Signing off on progress against plan. 
• Product testing
  • Done throughout development.
  • The advantage of testing on-site at the factory.
• Change point control - The dangers of part control during trials. How to overcome this. 
• Process development
  • Production teams
  • Safety specialists
  • Quality specialists. 
• Equipment and gauging development
  • Selecting suppliers
  • Run-off events
  • Final buy off. 
• Product training
  • How it is done.
  • How new model teams transfer knowledge.
• Trial events
  • The 6 major trial events & purpose of each one
  • The daily post event review.
• Accountability
  • The trial event evaluation room
  • Posting/tracking of all problems visually. 
• Speedy and accurate problem solving
  • How to do it.
• "Are you ready?" - Handoff  to  production teams. T
• The Launch