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Concurrent Engineering
Concurrent Engineering is the practice of concurrently developing products and their manufacturing processes in multifunctional teams with all specialties working together from the earliest stages.
The most critical factor in the success of Concurrent Engineering is the availability of resources to form multifunctional teams with all specialties present and active early.
The consequences of inadequate resources at the beginning are significant delays and wasted resources, which in turn will delay other projects and deplete their resources, while expending more development cost for all projects.
2.1 Resources
The most distinct contrast between advanced and primitive product development methodologies, presented ...
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