TR104: Concurrent Engineering of Product, Process, Facility, and Organization
Abstract/Contents
- Abstract
- We argue in this paper that Concurrent Engineering of Product, Process, Facility and Organization (CE4) is now both possible and beneficial. As quality has started to become a commodity, lime to market has become the major issue for many kinds of businesses. In some industries such as semiconductors in which product and process development have become rapid and competitive, developing the factory and bringing it on-line have started to become bottleneck steps in the product development cycle. CE4 extends the tradition of concurrent engineering of product and manufacturing process: it is now possible to start lo design the product, manufacturing process, manufacturing facility and the managing organization simultaneously. Like traditional concurrent design of product and manufacturing process (CE2), CE4 probably depends primarily on setting the management objective and providing the management support However, CE4 can build on a number of technical foundations: symbolic product and process models; support for extensive coordination among design professionals doing product, process, facility and organization design; and analytical tools to allow designers to do what-if studies of their individual and integrated designs. Engineers now routinely use some of these analytical tools, such as simulation models of devices, processes, buildings and facilities. We suggest adding organizational analysis tools, integrating all of these tools, and using them concurrently. We suggest that benefits of CE4 will include significantly improved time to market and potentially improved product cost and quality.
Description
| Type of resource | text |
|---|---|
| Date created | November 1995 |
Creators/Contributors
| Author | Kunz, John |
|---|
Subjects
| Subject | CIFE |
|---|---|
| Subject | Center for Integrated Facility Engineering |
| Subject | Stanford University |
| Subject | Concurrent Engineering |
| Subject | CE4 |
| Subject | Process Models |
| Genre | Technical report |
Bibliographic information
Access conditions
- Use and reproduction
- User agrees that, where applicable, content will not be used to identify or to otherwise infringe the privacy or confidentiality rights of individuals. Content distributed via the Stanford Digital Repository may be subject to additional license and use restrictions applied by the depositor.
Preferred citation
- Preferred Citation
- Kunz, John and Luiten, Gijsbertus T. and Fischer, Martin and Jin, Yan and Levitt, Raymond E.. (1995). TR104: Concurrent Engineering of Product, Process, Facility, and Organization. Stanford Digital Repository. Available at: http://purl.stanford.edu/cp016vk6775
Collection
CIFE Publications
Contact information
- Contact
- cife-email@stanford.edu
Loading usage metrics...