Introduction to the Technology Harvesting Process (THP)—3 days

  • Overview of the Technology Harvesting Process
  • Establishing a foundation for new process -- Preparation of flow charts. improving the process by incorporating new prospecting and harvesting tools and techniques and define the new process
  • The Decision Framework for the Enterprise -- identifying STEEP trends
  • How to establish what constitutes value generation for enterprise
  • Establish Critical Technology Areas CTAs)
  • Establish Initial Technology Search Strategy
  • Establish Candidate Technology Selection Method
  • How to develop Initial "Attribute X Technology Matrices" that will be used to evaluate technologies
  • Gap analysis
  • Risk management tools
  • Continuous Technology Harvesting Process

Design of Experiments (DOE) for New Product, Process and Technology - Development—4 days

  • Workshop with process simulations to demonstrate the nature of process challenges
  • How to design and analyze factorial DOEs for process optimization, process window definition and robustness comparisons
  • Three workshops with process simulations for practicing design and analysis of factorial DOEs
  • "T" and "F" tests for testing statistical significance
  • Interval plots for comparing alternatives
  • Intro to scatter diagrams for relating performance and material properties
  • Intro to test measurement precision (repeatability and reproducibility) and validation of test results
  • Documentation and reporting
  • SOPs for process design and product development