Concurrent Engineering
Concurrent engineering/CE/simultaneous advance technical activity

Simultaneous do, process such as various designs and production plan such as conceptual design/detail design/production design/production preparation in parallel in narrow sense at the time of product developing. When it points to the fact that the group of designers advance joint job efficiently inside design section, it is. Expanding this in a broad sense, the section which it is related to all phase of the product life cycle whichfrom plandevelopment reaches to sale abolition, means that in stage of plan and development and the design etc. of the product it participates & cooperates.

The concurrent engineering of narrow sensedoesthe joint ownershipcommon useof the data via the system of CAD / CAE / PDM, etc. for example design design and structural analysis and strength calculation etc. simultaneous in parallel, by the fact that work, aims toward dramatic shortening in development period simultaneously with the improvement of product quality.

With the broad concurrent engineering, in process of the development design, by the fact that each section of production and buying, Quality Assurance, business, marketing and service and furthermore the imitation part manufacturer etc. participate, it becomes purpose to decrease cost entirely by the fact that information of these post-treatments is fed back in the developer. Generally "8 tenths of product cost are decided at stage of the design", that it is done, but, you aim for the fact that the kind of part drawing where entire cost becomes cheap former design, user requirements the restriction and with respect to production cost and production facilities and conservative present cheapness, by making abolition and cost etc. of recycling the designer consider other than design important matter such as function and strength, is made to complete. In addition, because opinion of post-treatment is absorbed at development early stage, it is expected that also modification and the like after the product shipping decreases.

Forming the team generally, it is done, but as for the job from the fact that it is done with respect to most networks, also the virtual engineering is called. In addition, also the word, ????????? engineering is almost used the concurrent engineering synonymously. Conversely process of design production sale the technique which keeps doing to order is called the sequence engineering.

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