Implementing concurrent engineering and QFD method to achieve realization of sustainable project

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

In this paper, we present the impact of concurrent engineering strategies, methods, and tools on product sustainability. Concurrent engineering can be used to achieve the primary goals of a product realization project: lower costs, shorter times, high quality, and increasing value. Currently, it is important that new products also meet product sustainability goals, such as economic, environmental, and social goals. The sustainability of a product can be influenced the most in the early stages of product development, so in this paper, we present a customized quality function deployment (QFD) method called the house of sustainability, which translates sustainability requirements into technical solutions for a product. A seven-step process for implementing a sustainable product realization project is also proposed, in which the house of sustainability is one of the most important tools. The proposed process is illustrated with an example of a concurrent product realization project in engineering to order production.

• Language: English
• Keywords: concurrent engineering, product sustainability, production sustainability, new product development, QFD
• Work type: Article
• Typology: 1.01 - Original Scientific Article
• Organization: FS - Faculty of Mechanical Engineering
• Publication status: Published
• Publication version: Version of Record
• Year: 2021
• Number of pages: 28 str.
• Numbering: Vol. 13, iss. 3, art. 1091
• PID: 20.500.12556/RUL-134918
• UDC: 658.5(045)
• ISSN on article: 2071-1050
• DOI: 10.3390/su13031091
• COBISS.SI-ID: 48405251
• Publication date in RUL: 11.02.2022

Record is a part of a journal

• Title: Sustainability
• Shortened title: Sustainability
• Publisher: MDPI
• ISSN: 2071-1050
• COBISS.SI-ID: 5324897

Licences

• License: CC BY 4.0, Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International
• Link: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Description: This is the standard Creative Commons license that gives others maximum freedom to do what they want with the work as long as they credit the author.
• Licensing start date: 01.02.2021

Secondary language

• Language: Slovenian
• Keywords: sočasni inženiring, trajnost izdelka, trajnostna proizvodnja, razvoj novega izdelka, QFD

Projects

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

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