concurrent engineering

design method

Also known as: CE

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Concurrent engineering (CE) is a design method that organizes many aspects of the design effort simultaneously. Instead of a sequential process, CE uses special teams of designers, engineers, and other specialists to work together. This allows supporting activities like stress analysis, aerodynamics, and materials analysis to be conducted concurrently, rather than one after another.1

This approach has led to significant improvements in industries like aerospace, including shorter time-to-market, reduced costs, and increased reliability. A further evolution, integrated product and process development (IPPD), incorporates production, quality assurance, procurement, and marketing into these teams from the outset.1

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…important, a new design method, concurrent engineering (CE), has been replacing the traditional cycle. CE simultaneously organizes many aspects of the design effort under the aegis of special teams of designers, engineers, and representatives of other relevant activities and processes. The method allows supporting activities such as stress analysis, aerodynamics,…
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…important, a new design method, concurrent engineering (CE), has been replacing the traditional cycle. CE simultaneously organizes many aspects of the design effort under the aegis of special teams of designers, engineers, and representatives of other relevant activities and processes. The method allows supporting activities such as stress analysis, aerodynamics,…
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