Concurrent Engineering Principles

BASIC PRINCIPLES AND APPROACH METHOD OF CONCURRENT ENGINEERING

Nowadays, the challenges in today’s business are facing changing customer’s needs, higher product complexity, enhanced global competition, reduced product life cycle and technological advancement. Customers worldwide are more demanding high product performance, better quality in order for their satisfaction. There are many tools in total quality management in order to satisfy customers in their products with several performance dimensions, such as, high degree of quality, low-cost and short delivery times. One of the tools is the used of concurrent engineering (CE).

Concurrent Engineering (CE) is a management philosophy initiated from manufacturing industry. There are many meanings

Teamwork is usually important in order to improve the communication between the members. A good teamwork is usually produces a good result. B. Haque et el stated that one of the barriers to the success of CE is the miscommunication between the team members [9]. The efficient way to increase time-to-market for these projects is to increase the rework rate by clearly defining responsibilities and benefits and also building trust between teams. Regarding to work in parallel meaning that complex systems must overlapping if short development times are required otherwise valuable development times and resources are waste. Besides that, technology capabilities play an important role in implementation the CE practices. Designers are increasingly faced with the challenges of integrating distributed multidisciplinary product design and development teams made up of increasingly diverse sets of skills, varying design processes and different business measures [9]. Compare to traditional method in engineering design, the modern tools such Computer-Aided Design (CAD) and Computer-Aided Manufacturing (CAM) have help a lot in order to implement

The technology capabilities have helped them in faster way in order to complete the job task in the time rather than using the traditional ways. Besides that, the key for the successful of 777 project is the work in parallel way. It means that all different part work in overlapping and avoid time delay.. One of the pillars of CE implementation is organization itself. It is the most important part in most industries due to the responsibility to direct its own people toward the goal. The 777 project approach seems to be more adaptable and has a very effective way to shorten the development time and get better product even when dealing with very complex product. But when choosing this approach, we should apply CE step by step. Each member must give the multifunction team hundred