CONCURRENT / REVERSE ENGINEERING

CONCURRENT / REVERSE ENGINEERING

Abstract:

In today’s global market, the industry that responds to, the customer’s demands more fastly can only survive. Many companies are implementing different strategies and methodologies that will make them able to react the market more quickly and efficiently. To compete in today’s global economy, organizations are under pressure to improve their product development processes. The engineering design process is an important component of the overall product development process.
Concurrent engineering / simultaneous engineering strategy is one of those widely used methodologies and a systematic approach to integration and parrallization with engineering process using the product life cycle. CE makes it possible to deliver the product in shortest possible time, optimizing the related manufacturing processes and product design. Various product design aspect like testability, evaluability, marketability are considered. The design aspects are implemented in taking consideration of the management and planning tools.
CE is like a huge project spanning all phases of product life cycle right from designers to the marketing people. In this all the activities are carried out with the interaction of each one contributing to the whole idea carrying out the whole process in a systematic and in a planned manner. CE is anew wave of the product game with multifunctional teaming, which includes design for manufacturing (DFM) Continuous process implementation (CPI), TQM and quality function deployment (QFD). Concurrent is based on the constraints of 7T’s: Talent, Task, Techniques, Team, Technology, Time and Tools.
The paper introduces concurrent engineering and explains the principles of the same. Also, it discusses the framework and specification of CE with respect to product introduction and cost reduction. Further a comparison is made between traditional sequential engineering with concurrent engineering. To actually implement the concepts of CE, an appropriate case study is discussed.


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