The Lean Engineering Travel Guide The Best Itineraries for Developing New Products and Satisfying Customers

LIST OF FIGURES

Foreword

Preface

Introduction

Reading tips

Part one: In the land of engineering

Chapter 1 - Why this journey?

Chapter 2 - The journey to Lean

Chapter 3 - Before travelling

Chapter 4 - Practical tips for the journey ahead

Chapter 5 - A bit of history

Chapter 6 - On site: Daily life

Part two: Map, Territories, Pathways

Chapter 7 - Obeya*

Chapter 8 - Genba Walk***

Chapter 9 - The path to growth and profit

Chapter 10 - The path to knowledge and sustainability

Chapter 11 - SBCE, the Lean Engineering process ***

Part three: Compose your itinerary

Chapter 12 - The customer/product matrix

Chapter 13 - Summary table

Chapter 14 - Enjoy your journey

Bibliography

Biography

Cécile Roche is the Lean & Agile Director for Thales Group, author, co-founder of Lean Sensei Partners, and member of the Institut Lean France. She is the author of several books and a columnist for the Lean Enterprise Institute via the Lean Sensei Women network. She supports several managers on the Gemba, in plants or development teams, inside Thales, and other companies. She is in charge of running Lean training courses in the framework of several schools or continuous training courses, in particular for Lean in engineering. She leads numerous conferences or master classes.

Luc Delamotte is an expert in product engineering and Lean. For 25 years, his career as a product engineer, engineering department manager, and project manager in international contexts has allowed him to acquire vast experience on how to best capture customer needs and how to meet them with excellent products. He is now in charge of defining the framework and the deployment policy of Lean in engineering for the whole Thales Group (worldwide). He supports the entities in their local application of the most appropriate Lean practices (local coaching) and coordinates the lean engineering network of lean experts & correspondents.

Authors Cécile ROCHE and Luc DELAMOTTE extrapolated years of collective experiences, case studies, learnings, and growth in the functional area of Engineering. In their book LEAN Engineering - A travel guide - The best itineraries for developing new products and satisfying customers, they lay out for the reader a cafeteria-style learning within the guide as well as a holistic approach around the important nuances of Engineering/Product Development/Design. The journey of developing people, purpose, problem-solving, process design, and improvements never has a destination but rather a relentless pursuit of growth measured by our work. This can facilitate the reframing of non-value-added activity, that was once a conditioned norm. The authors navigate through their travel guide with multiple points of interest that take a deep dive into the P’s noted above. I would recommend not only to Engineering but to other genres inside an organization to see how the importance of cross-functional groups can align to a true north! Lots of experiences to be learned from the authors as they share their wisdom in a nice visual way to learn.

– Tracey Richardson, Author of The Toyota Engagement Equation Book

Cécile Roche and Luc Delamotte have written a unique book that I would have found very useful when I was employed as an engineer working in R&D and new product development. Well-written and grounded in the fundamentals, the book provides many practical examples that will help engineers correctly understand and successfully apply Lean to engineering work.

- Professor Bob Emiliani, Connecticut State University, author of Better Thinking, Better Results: Case Study and Analysis of an Enterprise-Wide Lean Transformation

Luc Delamotte and Cécile Roche describe the levers of Toyota's Toyota: the merging of the technical and social components of a learning organization. Toyota is a company founded in engineering and innovation and one committed to developing its people at every level as problem-solvers. "Lean in Engineering" creates the link between the technical skills required to create customer value and thrive in the future and the social skills leaders need to foster engagement and capability to do so. If you are an engineer, a leader with a technical background or managing technical teams, or a lean practitioner seeking the roadmap to an effective lean system, "Lean in Engineering" is the guide that will enable you to create an enduring learning organization

- Katie Anderson, author of Learning to Lead, Leading to Learn: Lessons from Toyota Leader Isao Yoshino on a Lifetime of Continuous Learning