Concurrent Engineering and Design for Manufacture of Electronics Products

The role of human resource management in concurrent engineering approaches to product innovation: Australian and Indonesian experiences

“…CE has been described as: "the answer to the need for shorter development cycles" (Shina, 1991); "The product development environment for the 1990s" (Carter and Baker, 1992); "A major element of many companies' improved competitiveness" (Clausing, 1994); "one of the most significant contemporary trends in new product development" (Gerwin and Susman, 1996). CE is found to mean different things to different people.…”

“…Often found to be inadequate, they typically involve bureaucratic design drawing approval and engineering change management procedures, periodic interdepartmental manager meetings, and "lightweight" project managers confronted by strong functional management control over resources. Further, because of a lack of consideration of downstream issues during the earlier design phases, the conventional process invariably leads to a need for postrelease "fixes" to products (in the form of engineering changes), some of which would be identified through redesign methods such as Value Engineering (e.g., Shina, 1991).…”

Proyecto mecatrónico de brazo robot cartesianointegrado a una celda de almacenamiento y recuperación automatizada AS / RS de un Sistema Flexible de Manufactura FMS

“…Recién surgida, los investigadores propusieron diferentes definiciones, algunos la homologan a la ingeniería simultánea (SE Simultaneous Engineering), los diseñadores industriales como Evans [4] afirman que es un método de diseño para la manufactura y ensamblaje; investigadores como Harley y Mortimer [7] la definen como la aplicación del análisis de diseño antes de la producción; Parsaei y Sullivan [11] consideran que su implementación debe apoyarse en el empleo del computador digital en el diseño y la manufactura; Ishii [8] afirma que la CE generalmente se ha reconocido como una prácti-ca de diseño y manufactura, que considera varios valores de ciclos de vida para un producto desde su etapa de diseño y abarca otros aspectos como facilidad de manufactura, facilidad de ensamblaje y funcionabilidad. Shina [12] define la CE como la integración más temprana posible de todos los conocimientos de la fábrica, en recursos, experiencia en el diseño, investigación, mercadeo, manufactura y ventas para la creación de un nuevo producto, con alta calidad, y bajo costo para complacer las expectativas de los clientes. Y Yazdani [15] propone una definición sintetizada de la CE, como la concurrencia o superposición del diseño y desarrollo de productos y procesos.…”

Implementing concurrent engineering

“…In particular, they have to strive to keep development and introduction costs down, improve market targeting and customer focus, and (most importantly to many commentators) reduce the lead time-to-market. In the late 1980s, concurrent engineering (CE) emerged as the solution to the problem of achieving more rapid and effective product innovation processes (e.g., Shina, 1991Shina, , 1994Turino, 1992). The benefits reported by advocates of CE range considerably, but in a number of cases quite dramatic results have been achieved (see Table 1).…”