Concurrent engineering strategies in electrical component manufacturing

Concurrent engineering is drastically reducing the time from the inception of designs to the production of the final product. It is highly suited for speeding up electrical manufacture design cycle times. One issue that must be addressed with concurrent engineering is where to limit its scope. Concurrent engineering can be extrapolated to include design, manufacturing, purchasing, quality assurance, and many other areas as it is based on total team involvement. For the purposes of this paper, it is limited to the integration of product design and manufacturing engineering