... and facilities dramatically. BPR Concurrent engineering Manufacturing New product development Organizational change Technology Time‐to‐market The importance of time in the product development process has been emphasized by many studies, but it is not until this key dimension is split...

...Paul Fearis Presents a product redesign project undertaken for Polaroid. Discusses the key features of a rapid product development programme,highlighting the need for a well‐integrated multidisciplined team and concurrent engineering supported by effective use of CAD/CAM technology. By the end...

..., equipment and shopfloor control strategies to the product development team. The resulting concurrent engineering tool aims to improve communication between design and manufacturing members of the development team by providing a suite of integrated software modules which enable design support...

...Rob Kinna Shares the experiences and successes of adopting concurrent engineering. Highlights the criticality of team selection, building and empowerment. Suggests that the concept of a team should not be restricted to an internal group but ought to include customers and suppliers. Concurrent...

...Stephen Evans; Fiona Lettice; Palminder Smart Describes the FAST concurrent engineering (CE) implementation methodology that has been developed by the authors at Cranfield University, through research and consultancy activities. The methodology is presented in a paper‐based work‐book and describes...

...Bill Gascoigne Concurrent engineering was heralded as the new panacea for manufacturing in the 1990s. The complexity of implementing the process through an organization has proved to be a major obstacle in achieving anticipated results: implementing it is a painful process in which a complete top...

...Jérôme Witter; Don Clausing; Ludger Laufenberg; Ronaldo Soares de Andrade Market presence, quality and costs are primarily decided during product development – improved in the last 15 years by the implementation of basic concurrent engineering and now further extended by enhanced quality function...