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Concurrent Engineering

Concurrent engineering is a systematic approach that integrates product design with related processes like manufacturing and support from the beginning. It involves designing the product, manufacturing process, and repair process simultaneously rather than consecutively. This decreases development time and costs while improving quality. Some key benefits are faster time to market, enhanced quality from earlier issue discovery, lower development costs from shorter design phases, and increased productivity from teams working together throughout the process.

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Concurrent Engineering

Concurrent engineering is a systematic approach that integrates product design with related processes like manufacturing and support from the beginning. It involves designing the product, manufacturing process, and repair process simultaneously rather than consecutively. This decreases development time and costs while improving quality. Some key benefits are faster time to market, enhanced quality from earlier issue discovery, lower development costs from shorter design phases, and increased productivity from teams working together throughout the process.

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CONCURRENT ENGINEERING

Concurrent engineering is a management and engineering philosophy for improving quality and
reducing costs and lead time from product conception to product development for new products and
product modifications. Concurrent engineering, also known as simultaneous engineering, is a method of
designing and developing products, in which the different stages run simultaneously, rather than
consecutively. It decreases product development time and also the time to market, leading to improved
productivity and reduced costs.

and processes, and the repair tools and processes are handled concurrently.

the product is first designed and developed; the manufacturing approach is then established. And finally
the approach to repair is determined.

What is concurrent engineering?

Concurrent engineering is a systematic approach to the integrated, concurrent design of products and
their related processes, including manufacture and support. This approach is intended to cause the
developers from the outset, to consider all elements of the product life cycle from conception to
disposal, including quality, cost, schedule, and user requirements.

The concurrent engineering approach is based on five key elements

: Why concurrent engineering?

and make it more difficult to predict the impact of design decisions on the functionality and performance

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thus causing the new product to be technological obsolete within a short period.

A characteristic curve representing cost incurred and committed during the product life cycle

21. 21 Summarized the results of a survey that include the following improvements to specific product
lines by the applications of concurrent engineering.

1. Development and production lead times 2. Measurable quality improvements 3. Engineering process
improvements 4. Cost reduction

1. Development and production lead times ed up to 60%.

tronic countermeasures system by33% and its


transition-to-production time by 22%.

2. Measurable quality improvements


lysilicon deposition
process for very large scale integrated circuits and achieved nearly two orders of magnitude reduction

coordinated quality improvement


CONCURRENT ENGINEERING 3))))))

the number of inspectors by two-thirds through emphasis on process control and linking the design and
manufacturing processes.

3. Engineering process improvements wing reduced up to 15 times

1. Faster Time to Market A major advantage that concurrent engineering offers is that it allows
companies to deliver their products to market in a much shorter time frame. When product development
stages run consecutively, the workers on prototyping stage must wait until those on design phase have
completed their tasks, those on testing phase must wait until those in prototyping phase are finished,
and so on. All of this waiting can delay product releases. Concurrent engineering allows workers on
several stages to work simultaneously, shortening the time to market.

2. Enhanced Quality Concurrent engineering practices also enable workers and managers to discover
any production issues earlier in the process, which leads to a higher-quality product. These practices
also reduce design revisions, unworkable prototypes and excessive testing to arrive at the highest-
quality product in the shortest time. In the auto manufacturer example, any issues involving the
aerodynamics of the car are uncovered earlier in the process by the testing team, which allows the
design and prototyping teams to work toward solving the problem.

3. Lower Development Costs The bulk of a company's costs associated with creating a new product
involve the design and development processes. Managers can use concurrent engineering as a
powerful tool for reducing those early development costs. Since concurrent engineering practices
decrease the time spent in the design and development phases, companies can deliver a product
faster, better and cheaper than their competitors. In the auto manufacturer example, concurrent
engineering practices allow the design, prototyping and testing teams to produce a factory-ready car
design in much less time and at a lower cost to the company.

4. Increased Productivity While consecutive engineering requires that workers on a later stage wait for
those in earlier stages, concurrent engineering allows workers the opportunity to be productive
immediately and throughout the process. This process allows workers to focus on the project as a
whole, rather than focus solely on their area of specialty. In the auto manufacturer example, the design,
prototyping and testing teams all work together on the same problem at the same time to find the best
solution.

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