CONCURRENT ENGINEERINGIndri Claudia M.M

Desprolab Mission #2

-Concurrent Engineering

Is a strategy where all the tasks

involved in product development

are done in parallel.

Integrated a long-term strategy involves major organizational and cultural change brings together multidisciplinary teams

-INCOSE, System Engineering Handbook

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-ADVANTAGE OF CE

i) Improved process

The concurrent process focusing on quality, cost and delivery. Besides that the company apply the CE will have a better game plan and can improve

clarity. Emphasis on competitive benchmarking.

ii) Closer cooperation

The organization will acquires better teamwork and improved the unity. Employee will be more

involve in every steps of the job and increase the unity between organization members. Besides, it

can build strategic relations withsuppliers.

-ADVANTAGE OF CE

Performance measure Benefit

Development time 30 50 % less

Engineering changes 60 95 % less

Scrap and rework 75 % reduction

Defects 30 85 % fewer

Time to market 20 90 % less

Field failure rate 60 % less

Service life 100 % increase

Overall quality 100 600 % higher

White-collar procuctivity 20 110 % higher

Return on assets 20 120 % higher

Lawson and Karandikar, 1994

-CONCURRENT ENGINEERING

TOOLS

QFD (Quality Function Deployment)

Collection of matrices that converts the needs of

the customer into technical specifications at all

stages of the design and manufacture process.

DFA (Design for Assembly)

To reduce the number of components (parts,

pieces), and then ensure that the remaining

components are easy to assemble.

-IMPACT OF IMPLEMENTING CE

Minimize the product life cycle

Decrease production cost

Maximize product quality

Teamwork