Lean Capital Project Development

What is LCPD?

Lean Capital Project Development is the specific use of lean principles, combined with the Lean Product Development process (used by Toyota and others), plus the Enneagram life cycle to drive out the wastes in capital projects and achieve:

1) Shorter project development time

2) Better project quality

3) Lower project cost

4) Improved on-time delivery of the project

5) Enhanced quality of work-life for the project team

One of the features of LCPD (Lean Capital Project Development)is a Chief Engineer with total project responsibility. The CE (Chief Engineer) has a CET (Chief Engineering Team) plus one or more MDTs Module Development Teams) who work together and keep in constant communications to deliver the project on-time, in-full, with no-errors (OTIFNE).

The Enneagram:

The LCPD Enneagram is the process enabler that guides team through the entire life-cycle of the capital project. (contact us for details)

Results:

Results are achieved by the Project Team (CE, CET, and MDTs) work together using:

1. Entrepreneurial Project Leadership

2. Co-located Project Teams of Responsible Experts

3. Set-Based Concurrent Project Engineering

4. Value Steam Focus

5. Pull Schedules

Getting Started:

JCM Work Designs/The Lean Sigma Team strongly recommends a series of 4 LCPD Workshops to get your project off to the best start using these concepts:

Workshop 1: Current State Value Stream Mapping & Waste Identification (the 9 wastes)

Workshop 2: Future State Value Stream Mapping & Countermeasures (to eliminate the 9 wastes)

Workshop 3: Implementation Planning using The Hoshin (to align effort toward common goals and plan the detailed 90-day actions to reach these goals)

Workshop 4+: Kaizen Events to Achieve the Future State (as soon as possible)

Size of Capital Project:

Your capital projects may fall into one of these categories:

1. Mega-Capital Projects……$500M – $20B capital projects (e.g. a new oil refinery)

2. Large-Scale Capital Projects….$1M – $500M

3. Small-Scale Capital Projects….$100K – $1M

4. Operational Capital Projects….$1K – $100K

This LCPD process works exceptionally well no matter the size of your project.

JCM Work Designs/The Lean Sigma Team can help you with your capital project, please contact us for a formal proposal.