How to successfully introduce concurrent engineering into new product development?

Rihar, Lidija (author), Žužek, Tena (author), Kušar, Janez (author)

Today, three conditions are crucial for a company to be competitive on the market: quality, reduced time and low costs for the development of new products. The paper shows how companies developing new products (NPD) for the market can successfully implement concurrent engineering as an improvement of project management, in order to reduce product development time and costs and to ensure the quality expected by customers. The methodology presented in this paper is based on three main pillars of knowledge: project management, teamwork and concurrent engineering. The methodology provides a step-by-step guideline for the introduction of concurrent engineering in a company. This paper also presents the results of 10 Slovenian companies where this methodology has been tested on 20 pilot projects. The results show that managed projects upgraded with the principles of concurrent engineering lead to cost reduction, shorter development time and fewer discrepancies.

• Language: English
• Keywords: concurrent engineering, new product development, concurrent engineering tools, hybrid models, teamwork, project management
• Work type: Article
• Typology: 1.01 - Original Scientific Article
• Organization: FS - Faculty of Mechanical Engineering
• Publication status: Published
• Year: 2021
• Number of pages: Str. 87-101
• Numbering: Vol. 29, iss. 2
• PID: 20.500.12556/RUL-128204
• UDC: 658.5
• ISSN on article: 1063-293X
• DOI: 10.1177/1063293X20967929
• COBISS.SI-ID: 35621379
• Publication date in RUL: 06.07.2021

Record is a part of a journal

• Title: Concurrent engineering
• Shortened title: Concurr. eng. res. appl.
• Publisher: Sage Publications
• ISSN: 1063-293X
• COBISS.SI-ID: 889115

Secondary language

• Language: Slovenian
• Keywords: sočasni inženiring, razvoj novega izdelka, hibridni modeli, timsko delo, vodenje projektov

Projects

• Funder: Other - Other funder or multiple funders
• Funding programme: Ministry of Higher Education, Science and Technology of the Republic of Slovenia
• Project number: 1000-15-0510

• Funder: ARRS - Slovenian Research Agency
• Project number: P2-0270
• Name: Proizvodni sistemi, laserske tehnologije in spajanje materialov