Lean driven innovation: powering product development at the Goodyear tire and rubber company
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TextPublication details: Boco Raton CRC Press 2016 Description: xxx, 463 pISBN: 9781482259681Subject(s): New products | Operations research | Research, Industrial | Lean manufacturing | Goodyear Tire and Rubber CompanyDDC classification: 658.57 Summary: Book Description
In 2005, Goodyear’s research and development (R&D) engine was not performing up to its full potential. The R&D organization developed high-quality tires, but the projects were not always successful. Goodyear embarked on a major initiative to transform its innovation creation processes by learning, understanding, and applying lean product development principles. Within five years, Goodyear saw its product development cycle times slashed by 70 percent, on-time delivery performance rise close to 100 percent, and throughput improve three-fold – all achieved with no increase in the R&D budget.
Lean-Driven Innovation: Powering Product Development at The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company describes in great detail how the Goodyear team was able to achieve such significant improvements. Revealing the ups and downs of this successful transformation, the book shares experiences of how this seismic change was managed, how people were engaged, and how Goodyear dramatically reinvigorated its product development and innovation processes—and, in the process, delivered substantial more value to customers and to the company.
The book also explains how lean product development helped Goodyear dramatically improve revenue by having every new product available when the market needed it. Presenting wide-ranging perspectives from all levels of leadership, this book is ideal for anyone in R&D daring to take on a lean initiative in R&D or who is struggling with a lean transformation that is not delivering to its full potential. Since the book focuses on universal lean principles, it is as insightful to other manufacturing and nonmanufacturing disciplines in any industry as well.
The book presents invaluable insights gained by the author during his 36 years within Goodyear, of which 10 have been directly involved in trying to develop, implement, and sustain lean to achieve the company’s business objectives. It distills ideas, practices, failures, and successes into key principles that lean product development practitioners can easily implement.
After reading this book, you will gain a practical path for applying lean to the innovation processes of your organization, including where to begin and what to do, regardless of the industry and the status of your transformation.
Watch Norbert Majerus discuss Lean-Driven Innovation at: https://youtu.be/yIlJEMJIcyA
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Table of Contents
Goodyear Today: Lean Product Development
Goodyear Results from Lean Product Development
Lean R&D Helps Develop Profitable Value Streams
This Lean "Stuff" Really Works
Goodyear’s Brief History of Lean Product Development
Lean Is a Lot of Work
Lean Principles
Notes
Success to Survival to a Foundation for Lean
The Golden Age of Tire Technology
Early Building Blocks for Lean
Use of Product and Process Standards
Knowledge Management Office
New Business Objectives
Note
The Beginning of a Lean Process
The First Kaikaku—Eroding Profits at Goodyear
Change Management
Changes for the Worse
Policemen, Ambulances, and the Downward Spiral
Outside Help Does not Help Out Enough
Matrix and Project Management
Lean Firsts at Goodyear
Notes
Finding and Removing Waste from Product Development
Focus on the Customer
What Do Customers Value?
Value and Waste
Muda, Muri, and Mura
Waste Removal Gets Underway at Goodyear
Notes
Making New-Product Value Flow
Break Down Large Projects into Quick Learning Cycles
Early Attempts at Visual Planning
Finding Our Bottleneck—Herbie Meets Herbie
The Kaikaku We Needed
Exploring Pull and Flow Concepts
The Turning Point
Fast is Better than Slow
Create a Kaikaku
Pit Crew Tries to Accelerate Speed
Notes
Lean and Innovation
Dispelling Lean Innovation Myths
Discovery of Lean Tools in the Innovation Creation Process
It Takes More than One Process
Create Capacity and Resources for Innovation
Funding the Innovation Space
Innovation Talent and Serial Innovators
Add Room for Failure to the Innovation Space
Standardizing Innovation
Managing Incoming Work
Manage Work Entering the Product Creation Process
Cost of Delay (COD)
Goodyear COD Calculation
Creating Customer Value and Profits
Lean Innovation Killers
More Innovation than Ever Before
Goodyear Innovation Awards
Notes
Operating the Lean Product Development Factory
From Lean Initiative to Lean Function
Get the Process Right and Results Will Follow
Lean Support—Accounting for Value
Responsibility for Quality
The End of the Herbie Story—Managing Purpose, Process, and People
Lean Purpose
Lean Process
Lean People
Improve R&D Efficiency—It Is OK to be Selfish
Lean Expectations and Endurance
Notes
Lean Never Ends
Lean Courage
Get Started
Notes
Index
Book Description
In 2005, Goodyear’s research and development (R&D) engine was not performing up to its full potential. The R&D organization developed high-quality tires, but the projects were not always successful. Goodyear embarked on a major initiative to transform its innovation creation processes by learning, understanding, and applying lean product development principles. Within five years, Goodyear saw its product development cycle times slashed by 70 percent, on-time delivery performance rise close to 100 percent, and throughput improve three-fold – all achieved with no increase in the R&D budget.
Lean-Driven Innovation: Powering Product Development at The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company describes in great detail how the Goodyear team was able to achieve such significant improvements. Revealing the ups and downs of this successful transformation, the book shares experiences of how this seismic change was managed, how people were engaged, and how Goodyear dramatically reinvigorated its product development and innovation processes—and, in the process, delivered substantial more value to customers and to the company.
The book also explains how lean product development helped Goodyear dramatically improve revenue by having every new product available when the market needed it. Presenting wide-ranging perspectives from all levels of leadership, this book is ideal for anyone in R&D daring to take on a lean initiative in R&D or who is struggling with a lean transformation that is not delivering to its full potential. Since the book focuses on universal lean principles, it is as insightful to other manufacturing and nonmanufacturing disciplines in any industry as well.
The book presents invaluable insights gained by the author during his 36 years within Goodyear, of which 10 have been directly involved in trying to develop, implement, and sustain lean to achieve the company’s business objectives. It distills ideas, practices, failures, and successes into key principles that lean product development practitioners can easily implement.
After reading this book, you will gain a practical path for applying lean to the innovation processes of your organization, including where to begin and what to do, regardless of the industry and the status of your transformation.
Watch Norbert Majerus discuss Lean-Driven Innovation at: https://youtu.be/yIlJEMJIcyA
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