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Concurrent Engineering: Automated Production Systems

Concurrent engineering is a process where engineering, marketing, and other functions work together throughout the design process to develop products that are better, cheaper, and faster. It aims to dramatically improve time to market and reduce costs by minimizing design changes and enabling problems to be addressed earlier. Companies use concurrent engineering to gain competitive advantages like increased performance, reduced development times, lower costs, and better customer satisfaction.

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Concurrent Engineering: Automated Production Systems

Concurrent engineering is a process where engineering, marketing, and other functions work together throughout the design process to develop products that are better, cheaper, and faster. It aims to dramatically improve time to market and reduce costs by minimizing design changes and enabling problems to be addressed earlier. Companies use concurrent engineering to gain competitive advantages like increased performance, reduced development times, lower costs, and better customer satisfaction.

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CONCURRENT ENGINEERING

Automated Production Systems


AGENDA

 Introduction
 Definition
 Objective
 Development
 Why do companies use
 Benefits
 Functions
 Conclusion
 Bibliography
Definition

 Concurrent engineering is a process in which


appropriate disciplines are committed to work
interactively to conceive, approve, develop, and
implement product programs that meet pre-
determined objectives.
 Concurrent Engineering is the relatively recent
term applied to the engineering design philosophy
of cross-functional cooperation in order to create
products which are better, cheaper, and more
quickly brought to market.
 This new trend reunites
technical and non technical
disciplines such as engineering,
marketing and accounting.
 Always focusing on satisfying
the customer, these
organizations must work
together in defining the
product.
Objective

 Dramatic improvements in time to market and


costs.
 Decrease production cost.
 Reduce the number of redesigns.
 Improvements to product quality and
performance.
 Maximize product quality.
 Do more with less.
 Doing things simultaneously.
 Focusing on the Process.
 Minimize the product life cycle.
 Increased enterprise integration.
 Flexibility.
 Responsiveness.
 Teamwork - Human Resources are working
together for a common product.
 Employee involvement, empowerment.
 Strategic relations with suppliers.
 Converting hierarchical organizations into teams.
 Can make trade-offs
 Design features.
 Part manufacturability.
 Assembly requirements.
 Material needs.
 Reliability issues.
 Serviceability requirements.
 Cost and time constraints.
Why do companies use Concurrent
Engineering
 Competitive Advantage:
 The reasons that companies choose to use concurrent
engineering is for the clear cut benefits and competitive
advantage that concurrent engineering can give them.
 Increased Performance:
 It enables the early discovery of design problems,
thereby enabling them to be addressed up front rather
than later in the development process. Concurrent
engineering can eliminate multiple design revisions,
prototypes, and re-engineering efforts and create an
environment for designing right the first time.
 Reduced Design and Development Times:
 Companies that use concurrent engineering are
able to transfer technology to their markets and
customers more effectively, rapidly and
predictably. They will be able to respond to
customers needs and desires, to produce quality
products that meet or exceeds the consumer's
expectations.
Benefits

• Lower cost
• Speed-to-market due to reduced cycle time 
• Better understand user requirements 
• Quality design of producible items 
• Quicker development period 
 Team work 
 Customer satisfaction 
 Integration of design and manufacturing 
 Better chances of succeeding product in
market 
 Low scrap and wastages
 Shorter cycle to get new product to market
 A quicker turnaround time for issues with
product quality that require engineering time
 A smaller number of changes made to a
product or its process during its life cycle
Functions
CONCLUSION
BIBLIOGRAPHY

 http://www.mne.psu.edu/lamancusa/html/co
nceng.htm
 http://www.freequality.org/documents/traini
ng/concurrentengineering%5B1%5D.ppt
 http://www.idef.com/pdf/compendium.pdf
 http://www.mne.psu.edu/lamancusa/html/co
nceng.htm
 http://www.johnstark.com/fwcce.html
 http://best.berkeley.edu/~pps/pps/concurrent
.html

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