Concurrent Engineering

1. Benefits of Concurrent Engineering
 major benefit: decrease in time to market
Other benefits:
Faster product development
Better quality
Less work in progress
Fewer engineering change orders
Increased productivity

2. The CE Teams
• Teams are being used by Concurrent Engineering
(CE)
• These teams include product developers from
marketing, research and development, design,
production, test, and logistics, to name a few, along
with project and program management.
• Suppliers and customers should also be included as
part of the team when appropriate.

3. The CE Teams
• To make concurrent engineering functional, a change
in the way business organization is done must occur.
• Team members must be committed to the project not
to their functional departments.

4. The CE Teams
• Productive designs will be attained through better
interaction among design team members.
• Avoid problems with teams