Today, many companies are interested in improving their competitive position in the marketplace, and hence, compete by bringing new products and value added services to the market in a timely fashion, at low cost and enhanced quality. Concurrent Engineering (CE), a new methodology and a systematic approach to the integrated design of products and related processes including manufacture and support is ideal, for this environment. / Organizations implement CE to achieve specific goals. This thesis focuses on the goals of time, cost and quality for implementing CE. The existence of specific models or methods of implementation of CE for specific goals has been investigated and metrics for specific models classified. Case studies of organizations implementing CE are outlined and differences in implementations pointed out. Organizations focusing on time put. more emphasis on stages/activities between detailed specification and detailed design stages in a CE NPD process. Organizations focusing on quality and cost put more emphasis on the stages/activities between preliminary design and volume production. / Metrics for CE processes targeting specific goals have also been classified. However, it has been found that metrics are not restricted to specific goals.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:LACETR/oai:collectionscanada.gc.ca:QMM.20494 |
| Date | January 1998 |
| Creators | Balakrishnan, AnandKumar. |
| Contributors | Thomson, Vince (advisor) |
| Publisher | McGill University |
| Source Sets | Library and Archives Canada ETDs Repository / Centre d'archives des thèses électroniques de Bibliothèque et Archives Canada |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Electronic Thesis or Dissertation |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Coverage | Master of Engineering (Department of Mechanical Engineering.) |
| Rights | All items in eScholarship@McGill are protected by copyright with all rights reserved unless otherwise indicated. |
| Relation | alephsysno: 001610288, proquestno: MQ43995, Theses scanned by UMI/ProQuest. |
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