Benefits of Concurrent Engineering major benefit: decrease in time to market

Other benefits:Faster product developmentBetter qualityLess work in progressFewer engineering change ordersIncreased productivity

The CE Teams•Teams are being used by Concurrent

Engineering (CE)

•These teams include product developers from marketing, research and development, design, production, test, and logistics, to name a few, along with project and program management.

•Suppliers and customers should also be included as part of the team when appropriate.

The CE Teams• To make concurrent engineering

functional, a change in the way business organization is done must occur.

• Team members must be committed to the project not to their functional departments.

The CE Teams• Productive designs will be attained

through better interaction among design team members.

• Avoid problems with teams