Ce Concurrent Engineering: The Product Development Environment for the 1990s - Hardcover

Carter, Donald E.; Baker, Barbara Stilwell

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0201563495 ISBN 13: 9780201563498

Publisher: Addison-Wesley, 1992

Synopsis

There are new rules in high-tech product design today for companies wanting to be world-class contenders. Learn how to draw on the best resources your company has to offer in design, manufacturing, marketing and service as early as possible and your products will be the right products the first time out. This teamwork-oriented approach to product design is Concurrent Engineering. Here's the book that will help you understand the essential dimensions of concurrent engineering and how you will reap the benefits of producing better designed products. You will reduce time-to-market delivery, experience cost savings, and satisfy even more customers. In Concurrent Engineering: The Product Development Environment for the 1990s you will examine the five forces of change that you must contend with in competitive product design: technology, tools, tasks, talent, and time. You will uncover valuable resources within your own company by understanding how new multifunctional teams, made up of individuals from R&D, marketing, manufacturing and other key areas, will ensure that product design options are plausible before spending time and money. Whether you are an engineer or product manager, you will discover valuable guidance in this book on how to transform your product development approach to concurrent engineering. 0201563495B04062001

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From the Back Cover

In Concurrent Engineering: The Product Development Environment for the 1990s you will examine the five forces of change that you must contend with in competitive product design: technology, tools, tasks, talent, and time. You will uncover valuable resources within your own company by understanding how new multifunctional teams, made up of individuals from R&D, marketing, manufacturing and other key areas, will ensure that product design options are plausible before spending time and money. Whether you are an engineer or product manager, you will discover valuable guidance in this book on how to transform your product development approach to concurrent engineering.

From the Inside Flap

In the mid-1980s, several companies approached Mentor Graphics Corporation and asked for assistance in solving their time-to-market pressures. These companies wanted Mentor Graphics to participate in improving their performance by providing them with a cost-effective product development environment. These requests led the authors and others at Mentor Graphics to evaluate what would be neded to create a product development environment for the 1990s.

These evaluations indicate that increasing the number of tools and amount of data, without other changes, cannot break down the barriers to improved productivity. The tools and data must be accompanied by new product development processes that meet the requirements of the market and current technologies. These processes, along with the tools, data, and employees who use them, must exist in a product development environment shaped by the philosophy and methodology of concurrent engineering.

This book describes the concurrent engineering environment necessary for developing electronic, software, mechanical, and system products in the 1990s. It is written for today's decision makers who must communicate their company's vision for tomorrow. If you are one of those decision makers, you are a manager of change, and concurrent engineering methods will enable you to reshape your company's product development environment into the concurrent engineering environment your company needs now and in the future.

Edition details

• Publisher: Addison-Wesley
• Publication date: 1992
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0201563495
• ISBN 13: 9780201563498
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 192