Lean Product Development

Vinci Consulting offers opportunies to learn about Lean Engineering : Eurosae Training from 13 to 15th September 2010, Meeting for Obeya and Visual Management organized by Supelec on September 23rd, and Progiciels Fair on September 30th 2010.

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Lean and PLM Conferences in Progiciels Fair 2010

Vinci Consulting will take part to the next Progiciels Fair's Edition, on September 30th, at Annecy (France).

Mr. Stéphane Gautrot, Senior Manager, will speak about  :

"Lean and PLM : to manage the value added"  and "Lean Engineering : Innovation and New Product Development"                                 

With the participation of Jean-Robert Delaforge (Hager Security).                                   

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Lean Engineering Training : Improve your product development process performance

Vinci Consulting is proposing an inter enterprise training on Lean Engineering, in partnership with Eurosae.  

This course is based on most advanced industrial initiatives. It intends to provide a clear understanding of Lean Product Development concepts and Values throught a hands-on role playing game, to present methods, technics and tools...

This training is dedicated to Lean Program managers, Product Development Leaders, Knowledge Owerns, Project Owners, Subject Matter experts, who have a good view on overall processes of the company, and who are willing to:

• understand Lean Engineering specificities
• know about Lean Engineering major tools
• launch Lean Engineering deployment operation.

This 3-day training will take place in EUROSAE offices:

• from September 13th to September 15th, 2010 in Toulouse.

For more information, please call at 33(0)1 44 54 24 00 or visit EUROSAE website (training MAE5) 

04/06/2010 - PLM Governance

Focus on PLM Governance

Michel Maurino, President and founder of Vinci Consulting, is pleased to present the results of a new study, carried out with major industries.

Published on May 20th 2010 in Industrie & Technologies

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11/05/2010 - New Conference Customer Services

Driving Customer Services and MRO Value with PLM

Vinci Consulting in partnership with PTC organizes a conference on Eurosatory fair in Paris, on June 15th from 10 to 11 am.

Companies are facing major changes, driven by globalization, new market needs and economical demands. Because their ability to propose innovative services for the customers is becoming a crucial and strategic differentiation factor, there is an increasing focus on the transformation from a product-centric model to a service-centric model.

Relying on a strong fondational customer service is not enough anymore and this key challenge raises fundamental questions:

"How to propose innovative services based on a realistic and feasible commitment,
hold over time at the reasonable cost?"

"How to master the complexity of the product, from development to operational context?"

An innovative Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) strategy is the basis for a service-centric model, integrating and valuing development data, ILS and in-service feedback.

Orators : Philippe Herrerias and Stéphane Gautrot, Partners.

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Vinci Consulting confirms its development in Aerospace

Vinci Consulting proposes managing innovation & technology consulting services since its creation in 1992.

According to its experience and its main projects in Aerospace (Eads, Airbus, Astrium, Thales, Safran etc.), Vinci Consulting has been recently joining the Competitiveness Cluster Aerospace Valley.

Vinci Consulting is today partner of the research project " SIMID ".

SIMID is certified by Aerospace Valley and aims at developing a platform of collaborative services for the aircraft's preservation in operational conditions.

Vinci Consulting brings to this project its integration of data sDM (semantic Dated Management) platform based on the semantic Web technologies and its experience in aeronautical MRO process.

22/03/2010 - The Lean Engineering model of Toyota is questioned

Is Lean Engineering still a model of excellence ?

Point of view of Michel Maurino, President and founder of Vinci Consulting.

Published on 22 March 2010 in the daily newspaper website: "Les Echos".

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18/01/2010 - New Partnership between Vinci Consulting and PTC

To make the PLM ROI faster

Vinci Consulting and PTC sign a new partnership. According to this agreement , PTC will represent its software PLM solutions and Vinci will deliver its management consulting services. Vinci Consulting and PTC will privilege a consulting and expertise approach for the purpose of delivering high values and quality to the customers. The partnership will provide a complete and performant services proposal for the customer’s innovation and development process.

PTC and Vinci Consulting  want to develop and focus selected areas, e.g. Aerospace and Defense, Automotive, Utilities and Equipments,  in France and Germany.

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21/10/2009 - International Seminar on PLM

Vinci Consulting participated in the International PLM Seminar in Sao Paulo, Brazil, on September 22nd and 23rd

Mundo PM, the main South-American Project Management review, has organized on September 22nd and 23rd an international seminar about Product Lifecycle Management (PLM). Denis Debaecker, Vinci Consulting partner, participated in this seminar in partnership as international PLM expert. He gave two conferences on “Managing a PLM Project – Approach and Lessons Learnt” and “Lean Engineering and PLM – specificities and complementarity”.

During this seminar, the lecturers gave interesting point of view about PLM eco-system, presented different aspects such as academic researches, PLM software, and several illustrations of success stories and case studies of PLM initiatives in the Brazilian industry.

To read the report and to see the pictures of this seminar, please consult Mundo PM page (in Portugese).

13/10/2009 - The Challenges of Collaborative Engineering

Download Denis Debaecker's presentation about the challenges of Collaborative Engineering (Adobe Engineering Forum, June 18th, Paris)

Now you can view the report of the Adobe Engineering Forum and download the presentations used during this event.

In this forum, whose topic was "Securing and extending Collaborative Engineering to all company businesses", Denis Debaecker, partner of Vinci Consulting, presented the stakes of Collaborative Engineering. He noticed that:

"Controlling data exchanges is a condition for an efficient work process. In order to be competitive the extended company has to be reactive facing the market, and consequently, be able to accelerate R&D cycles and reduce design costs".

You can also download this presentation on our website (available only in French).

05/10/2009 - PDT Europe 2009

Vinci Consulting sponsors the event "PDT Europe 2009" dedicated to PLM systems governance (Paris, Novembre 18th and 19th, 2009)

Vinci Consulting sponsors "PDT Europe 2009", the major European event within the Product Data Technology area that will take place in Paris, on the 18th and 19th of November. This 18th edition's theme is “Effective PLM Operations – Governance and PLM Standards”.

This event is a communication place for like-minded specialists. It is neutral and open for industry, vendors and academia. It is run by Eurostep since 2004.

For more information please visit the PDT Europe 2009 website.

29/09/2009 - Lean Engineering Training

New : Vinci Consulting invites you to a Lean Engineering Training, in partnership with EUROSAE

Vinci Consulting is proposing an inter enterprise training on Lean Engineering, via the 2010 edition of the EUROSAE training catalogue

This training, entitled MAE005 Lean Engineering:  Improve performance of  product development process, is dedicated to Lean Program managers, Engineering Center managers and Process & Methods managers who have a good view on overall processes of the company, and who are willing to:

• understand Lean Engineering specificities
• know about Lean Engineering major tools
• launch Lean Engineering deployment operations

This 3-day training will take place in EUROSAE offices:

• from March 22nd to March 24th, 2010 in Paris
• from September 13th to September 15th, 2010 in Toulouse

For more information, please visit EUROSAE website

28/05/2009 - Are you Lean ? Test your Product Development Process !

Vinci Consulting is lauching a European survey for scoring the Productivity/Efficiency of Product Development Processes of companies and to compare it to the performance of one of the best-in-class

The survey is dedicated to corporations and European Industrial Groups in Automotive, Aeronautics, Defence, Equipments, Railway and Naval Construction, Energy, High-Tech...

The questionnaire is anonymous, you can also let us your contact details. Participants will have access to the results of the survey and will be invited to a refund and an exchange on the subject.

This survey is realised in partnership with:

Want to test your company ? Answer online or download the survey :

Participate in Workshop dedicated to "Lean Engineering" on Wednesday, April 22 in Paris and on Thursday, April 23 in Toulouse

Vinci Consulting and TargetedConvergence are pleased to announce the third session of the Think Tank Innovation & Technology on Lean Engineering. Based on your real problems, one has to try to find solutions together around a debate.

Vinci Consulting invites Leaders of Major Industrial Companies and Leaders in Product Development at this free workshop hosted by Michael N. Kennedy.

If you want more information about the content of the session or be contacted for other events, please, contact us.

04/12/2008 - Learn how Vinci Consulting helps EADS sort out its PLM !

Within its PHENIX Project,
EADS focus on a Strategic PLM Roadmap
Read Vinci Consulting point of view
in 01 Informatique magazine

Vinci Consulting and its PLM expert task-force can help you too have a clear view on your prospective or already launched PLM project, both from a process and IT management perspective.

Learn how through the return on experience from EADS on 01 Informatique Magazine or from our PLM Project Recovery plan Strategic Roadmap.

18/09/2008 - Think Tank Innovation and Technology

The last Think Tank Innovation and Technology !
"Lean Engineering : Executive Overview"
was successfully held on September 17^th and 18^th 2008,
in Toulouse and Paris

Vinci Consulting and TargetedConvergence are pleased to announce a Strategic Agreement. Both consulting firms will propose Seminars, Training Sessions and full transformation Methodology on Learning First Product Development^TM and Set-Based Thinking^TM in France, strengthening their offer on "Lean Approaches" to Engineering. In order to introduce the deal to clients, Vinci Consulting invited a group of executives from various industrial corporations to attend a complementary seminar "Executive Overview" conducted by Michael N. Kennedy.

If you would like to know more about the outcomes of the session or be involved in coming events, please contact us.

25/07/2008 - New Executive Partnership Vinci Consulting - Ecole Centrale Paris

To make your PLM Project Team operational quickly !  Ecole Centrale Paris Executive Education and Vinci Consulting launched a certifying PLM training allowing companies to train their co-workers in fundamental strategic, functional and technical steps of Product Lifecycle Management project implementation. Lasting one week and based on the realisation of a case study, this training will end with a certification from Ecole Centrale Paris Executive Education. For more information, contact Nathalie Glaziou

09/05/2008 - Rethinking Innovation and Product Development

"Rethinking Innovation and Product Development"

Michel Maurino, President and founder of Vinci Consulting, explains his prospective point of view regarding Innovation and Product Development. Published in one of the referring French Business daily newspaper : "Les Echos"

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