Concurrent engineering: effective deployment strategies

Menon, Unny; Graham, Michael

doi:10.1590/S0103-65131996000200002

Abstract

This paper provides a comprehensive insight into current trends and developments in Concurrent Engineering for integrated development of products and processes with the goal of completing the entire cycle in a shorter time, at lower overall cost and with fewer engineering design changes after product release. The evolution and definition of Concurrent Engineering are addressed first, followed by a concise review of the following elements of the concurrent engineering approach to product development: Concept Development: The Front-End Process, identifying Customer Needs and Quality Function Deployment, Establishing Product Specifications, Concept Selection, Product Architecture, Design for Manufacturing, Effective Rapid Prototyping, and The Economics of Product Development. An outline of a computer-based tutorial developed by the authors and other graduate students funded by NASA ( accessible via the world-wide-web ). is provided in this paper. A brief discussion of teamwork for successful concurrent engineering is included, t'ase histories of concurrent engineering implementation at North American and European companies are outlined with references to textbooks authored by Professor Menon and other writers. A comprehensive bibliography on concurrent engineering is included in the paper.

Concurrent Engineering; Integrated Product Development; Prototyping; Quality Function Deployment; Design for Manufacturing; Case histories and web-based tutorial

Concurrent engineering: effective deployment strategies

Prof. Unny Menon, Ph.D., C.Eng., F.I.Mech.E^I; Michael Graham, B.S., M.S., M.B.A^III

^IIndustrial and Manufacturing Engineering, Cal Poly State University, San Luis Obispo, California 93407, USA. E-mail: umenon@calpoly.edu

^IIHitachi America Ltd., 2000 Sierra Point Parkway, Brisbane, California 94005-1835, USA

ABSTRACT

This paper provides a comprehensive insight into current trends and developments in Concurrent Engineering for integrated development of products and processes with the goal of completing the entire cycle in a shorter time, at lower overall cost and with fewer engineering design changes after product release. The evolution and definition of Concurrent Engineering are addressed first, followed by a concise review of the following elements of the concurrent engineering approach to product development: Concept Development: The Front-End Process, identifying Customer Needs and Quality Function Deployment, Establishing Product Specifications, Concept Selection, Product Architecture, Design for Manufacturing, Effective Rapid Prototyping, and The Economics of Product Development. An outline of a computer-based tutorial developed by the authors and other graduate students funded by NASA ( accessible via the world-wide-web ). is provided in this paper. A brief discussion of teamwork for successful concurrent engineering is included, t'ase histories of concurrent engineering implementation at North American and European companies are outlined with references to textbooks authored by Professor Menon and other writers. A comprehensive bibliography on concurrent engineering is included in the paper.

Key words:Concurrent Engineering, Integrated Product Development, Prototyping, Quality Function Deployment, Design for Manufacturing, Case histories and web-based tutorial.

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11. ACKNOWLEDGMENT

The work described in this paper was made possible by a grant from NASA [ContractNumber: NGT-10012] under the NASA-HQ program for Multi-Disciplinary Design and Analysis Fellowships awarded to five U.S. Universities [Cal Poly SLO, Brigham Young, Clemson, Georgia Tech and Virginia Tech], for the project period 1994-97. The support provided by NASA is commendable and is gratefully acknowledged.

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[1] 1. Airlines Aided Design Process, Aviation Week and Space Tech., April 11, 1994, pp 51.

[2] 2. Carter, Donald E. and Baker, Barbara S., Concurrent Engineering: The Product Development Environment for the 1990's, Addison-Wesley, Menlo Park, 1992.

[3] 3. Cavalier, Robert, Making Mosaic Webs Work at the Course Level, On the Internet, January 1995, pp 32-34.

[4] 4. Davidson, Andrew, Coding with HTML Forms, Dr. Dobb's Journal, June 1, 1995, pp 70.

[5] 5. Editorial Staff-Byte Magazine, Dialectics of the Web, Byte, March 1, 1995, pp 36-361.

[6] 6. Editorial Staff-Aviation Week, CATIA Pervades 777 Program, Aviation Week and Space Technology. April 11. 1994, pp 40.

[7] 7. Gupta, Ashok K. and Wilemon, David L., Acceleraling the Development of Technology-based New Products, Journal of Product Innovation Management, March 1990, pp 23-33.

[8] 8. Harris, Judi, Making the Hypernet Happen: HTML Commands in NCSA's Mosaic, The Computing Teacher, December 1, 1994, pp36.

[9] 9. Izuchukwu, John, Architecture and Process: The Role of Integrated Systems in Concurrent Engineering Introduction, Concurrent Engineering, March/April 1992, pp 19-23.

[10] 10. Kerzner, Harold, Project Management: A Systems Approach to Planning, Scheduling, and Controlling, Van Nostrand Reinhold, New York, 1995.

[11] 11. McArthur, Douglas C., "World Wide Web and HTML," Dr. Dobb's Journal, December 1, 1995, pp 18-20.

[12] 12. Mecham, Michael and Mckenna, James T, Cost, Not Size, To Drive Success of Superjumbo, Aviation Week and Space Technology, November 21, 1994, pp45-46.

[13] 13. Allen, J.K. and Mistree, F., "The Design-Learning Simulator," Systems Realization Laboratory, Georgia Tech, Atlanta, Georgia, 1996. URL: http://www.srl.gatech.edu/education/ME3110

[14] 14. Norris, Guy, Tailor Made Twinjet, Flight International, December 8, 1993, pp 32-34. and The Genesis of a Giant, Flight International, August 6, 1994, pp 61-74.

[15] 15. PBS/KCTS Television, 21st Century Jet broadcast series, 1-800-937-5387, 1995-1996

[16] 16. Prasad, B., Concurrent Engineering Fundamentals: Integrated product and process organization, Volume I, Prentice-Hall, 1996.

[17] 17. Proctor, Paul, Boeing Presses Need for Multinational VLCT, Aviation Week and Space Technology, November 21, 1994, pp59.

[18] 18. Proctor, Paul, Boeing Rolls Out 777 to Tentative Market, Aviation Week and Space Technology. April 11. 1994, pp 36-39.

[19] 19. Pugh, Stuart, TOTAL DESIGN: Integrated Methods for Successful Product Engineering, Addison-Wesley, Menlo Park, 1991 and subsequent posthumous edition edited by D.Clausing and R. Andrade, Creating Innovative Products using TOTAL DESIGN, Addison-Wesley, 1996.

[20] 20. Shifrin, Carole A., New Jumbos, SST's Face Tough Hurdles, Aviation Week and Space Technology, November 21, 1994, pp42-43.

[21] 21. Sparaco, Pierre, "Airbus Weighs Four A3XX Versions, Aviation Week and Space Technology, November 21, 1994, pp 54.

[22] 22. Spencer. William J., Research to Product: A Major U.S. Challenge, California Management Review, Winter 1990. pp 45-53.

[23] 23. Syan C.S. and Menon, U., Concurrent Engineering: concepts, implementation and practice, Chapman and Hall, London, 1994.

[24] 24. Ulrich, Karl T. and Eppinger, Steven D., Product Design and Development, McGraw-Hill, San Francisco, 1995.

[25] 25. Urban, Glen L. and Hauser, John R., Design and Marketing of New Products, Prentice-Hall, New Jersey, 1993.

[26] 26. Vesey, Joseph T. "Meet the New Competitors: They Think in terms of Speed-to-market," IE, December 1990, pp 20-26.

[27] 27. Wheelwright, Steven C. and Clark, Kim B., Revolutionizing Product Development, The Free Press, New York, 1992.

[28] 28. Winner, R.I., Pennell J.P., Bertend H.E. and Slusarczuk M.M.G., The Role of Concurrent Engineering in Weapon System Acquisition, IDA Report R-338, Institute for Defense Systems Analysis, Alexandra VA, 1988.

[29] 29. Turns, J., Mistree, F., Rosen, D., Allen, J.K., Guzdial, M. and Carlson, D., "A Collaborative Multimedia Design Learning Simulator," ED-Media 95, World Conference on Educational Multimedia and Hypermedia, (H. Maurer, Ed.), Graz, Austria, June 18-21, 1995, pp. 654-659.

[30] 30. Shina. S.G., "Successful implementation of Concurrent Engineering Products and processes, Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1994.

[31] 31. Shina, S.G., "Concurrent Engineering and Design for Manufacture of Electronic Products", Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1991.

[32] 32. Singh, N., "Computer-Integrated Design and Manufacturing", John Wiley & Sons Inc., 1996.

[33] 33. Smith, P.S. and Reinertsen D.G., "Developing products in half the time", Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1995.

[34] 34. Menon U., Rapid Prototyping of hardware and software, Chapter in "Integrated Product, Process and Enterprise Design", B.Wang (Ed), Gordon & Breach Ltd., London (in press pending publication) 1996.

[35] 35. Corbell, J., Dooner M., Meleka J. and Pym. C., Design for Manufacture, Addison-Wesley, 1991.

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