Agile PLM • 11
Concurrent Engineering
Concurrent engineering (British English: simultaneous engineering) is a
workow that, instead of working sequentially through stages, carries out
a number of tasks in parallel. For example, it might involve starting tool
design as soon as the detailed design has started, even before the detailed
designs of the product are nished; or it might entail starting on detailed
design of solid models before the concept design of surface models is com-
plete. Although this does not necessarily reduce the amount of manpower
required for a project, as more changes are required due to the incomplete
and changing information, it does drastically reduce lead times and thus
time to market.
Feature-based CAD systems have ...