NDLI: Concurrent engineering-key to cost-effective product reliability, maintainability, and manufacturability

Content Provider	IEEE Xplore Digital Library
Author	Poeth, D.F.
Copyright Year	1992
Description	Author affiliation: Battele Memorial Inst., Columbus, OH, USA (Poeth, D.F.)
Abstract	A major effort is being directed to combine and integrate the product life cycle using the concept of concurrent engineering. The major barriers to industry-wide acceptance of concurrent engineering have been found to be management misunderstanding of the applications of the concepts involved and a lack of clear direction to its implementation, and a reluctance to change by the engineering professionals involved. A change in total corporate culture is required to eliminate these barriers. The principal conclusion reached is that the current push to introduce total quality management (TQM) into a company can be used as the driver for the integration of all engineering and manufacturing functions into a concurrent engineering operation. Concurrent engineering becomes an enabling technology for total quality management. Further, disciplines such as reliability, maintainability, and computer-aided engineering become the enabling technologies for concurrent engineering. The acceptance of the changes required in corporate culture leads to the natural introduction and evolution of new technology driven by total quality management. This evolution has resulted in a smooth transition from isolated product generation functions into a totally integrated design, test and manufacturing operation.
Starting Page	131
Ending Page	134
File Size	395440
Page Count	4
File Format	PDF
DOI	10.1109/RMCAE.1992.245501
Language	English
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Publisher Date	1990-10-09
Publisher Place	USA
Access Restriction	Subscribed
Rights Holder	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Subject Keyword	Maintenance engineering Reliability engineering Concurrent engineering Total quality management Manufacturing industries Testing Costs Isolation technology Manufacturing processes Product development
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article

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