Title :
Concurrent engineering for consumer, industrial products, and government systems
Author :
Keys, L. Ken ; Rao, Ramesh ; Balakrishnan, Kumar
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Ind. & Manuf. Syst. Eng., Louisiana State Univ., Baton Rouge, LA, USA
Abstract :
Recent Institute for Defense Analysis reports, National Science Foundation workshop results, and other current efforts and publications addressing concurrent engineering (CE) are discussed. It is noted that CE has yielded benefits involving reduction in change orders, development time, development costs, inventories, scrap, rework, defects, and production costs
Keywords :
design engineering; electronics industry; management; project engineering; Institute for Defense Analysis; National Science Foundation; concurrent engineering; consumer products; defects; development time; government systems; industrial products; production costs; reduction in change orders; rework; scrap; Concurrent engineering; Costs; Government; Manufacturing industries; Manufacturing processes; Personnel; Product development; Project management; Solid state circuits; Vehicle dynamics;
Conference_Titel :
Electronics Manufacturing Technology Symposium, 1991., Eleventh IEEE/CHMT International
Conference_Location :
San Francisco, CA
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-0155-2
DOI :
10.1109/IEMT.1991.279743
