Twelve steps to successful
Concurrent Engineering
The competition of today's
market place there has created an intense demand
on a company's management team engineers and
project managers to deliver flawless, cheaper
and faster products and in timely manners.
A designer's primary
objective is to design a functioning product
within the given economic and schedule
restraints. But even as technology increases and
time to market decreases, economic pressures
require that more and more staff cuts. So that
what we have is a perfect storm of having to do
more and more with less and less. By utilizing
concurrent engineering processes that allow
early consideration of design and manufacturing
aspects, designers are able to optimize product
manufacturability, quality, serviceability, cost
flexibility, market acceptance and
on-time-delivery.
Concurrent Engineering is
to create an environment where cross-functional
team work together to optimize the product
design and manufacturing process. The team
requires at early stage, active participation
from manufacturing, marketing, finance, design
engineers, purchasing, and technicians in a
cooperative effort. The team works together to
produce a product functionally sound and
optimized to reduce the over all development and
manufacturing costs, shorten delivery time,
simplify assembly process, enhance the product,
and increase the overall development and
reliability, thus providing a strong, economical
and efficient solution for today's challenges.
Here are Shax
Engineering's twelve basic principles of
concurrent engineering
1. Understand
product requirement.
2. Establish
clear project goals and a clear business
mission.
3. Create
product development detail plan.
4. Develop
integrate development process.
5. Establish
parts and suppliers at early stage of the
project.
6. Establish
and cultivate cross-functional integration and
collaboration.
7. Use
software tools and integrate CAE, CAD and CAM.
8. Build
functional building blocks representing
development sections.
9. Simulate
product performance and manufacturing processes
electronically.
10.
Set milestones and create an efficient
development process.
11.
Use Quality Engineering and Reliability
techniques.
12.
Continually review the progress and
revise your plan
Done right these twelve
steps can help any forward thinking company meet
the intense market challenges that today's
economic pressures bring.
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