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 Book Reviews
Concurrent Engineering Effectiveness, Authored by
Mitchell Fleischer and Jeff K. Liker; Published by Hanser
Gardner Publications, Ohio
©1997 ISBN 1-56990-231-3
Concurrent Engineering Effectiveness: Integrating Product De-
velopment Across Organizations provides an understanding of the
non-technical issues involved in establishing a company-wide con-
text for concurrent engineering (CE). This includes the work pro-
cess, organization, people, and supply chain issues involved with
, CE. The book also includes a structured methodology for using that
understanding to plan and implement changes.
There are many books and lots of training available which de-
scribe the work and tools of CE. This book describes a great deal
about the context in which CE resides, and the process for making
CE happen.
In Part I, the authors work through a model showing the context
in which CE takes place. Chapter 2 provides an overview of the
whole model. Chapter 3 focuses on the Work Processes of CE.
Chapter 4 describes the internal organizational context for CE.
Chapter 5 discusses people issues. Chapter 6 describes the role of
the supply chain along with mechanisms for linking with these ex-
ternal organizations. And Chapter 7 discusses the technological
context for CE. For each of those topics the authors discuss choices
which need to be made in order to provide a suitable context for CE,
as well as best practices and lessons learned. The last chapter in Part
I provides a model with a tool called the CE Profile. This detailed
discussion provides conceptual frameworks and models for the
analysis and design methodology.
In Part II, the book provides directions for working through a pro-
cess of changing from a current product development process to a
concurrent engineering. Chapter 9 provides an overview of the
structured process and describes the benefits of using it. Chapters 10
through 13 describe the four stages in the change process: Scope,
Assessment, Design, and Implementation. The Appendix includes a
set of eight descriptive case studies on CE.
Biren Prasad
EDS/General Motors Account
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Integrated Product and Process Design and Develop-
ment—The Product Realization Process, Authored by Ed-
ward B. Magrab; Published by CRC Press, Boca Raton, Flor-
ida
©1997 ISBN 0-8493-8483-4
The material in this book presents the development of the inte-
grated product and process design and development (IP’D’) team
method. The book details the means of implementing an integrated
approach to the product realization process. It contains a large
amount of specific information. It emphasizes customer satisfaction
and its relationship to the product’s definition, and presents meth-
ods used successfully to create products.
The material in this book is arranged in the following manner.
The first three chapters introduce the Ip2D2method in context with
its evolution to its present form; define quality and show how it now
is one of the driving forces in product development. Chapters out-
line the goals and methods used to realize a product; explain what
the lp2D2 method is and the order in which its tasks are usually im-
plemented ; and, lastly, identify the factors that influence a product’s
cost.
Chapters 4 to 6 give specific procedures that an IPzD2team can
use to obtain the customer needs, convert these needs into a multi-
level set of functional requirements for the product, and generate
and evaluate numerous candidate solutions and embodiments to ar-
rive at a product that satisfies the customer.
Chapters 7 to 10 present the aspects of design for &dquo;X&dquo;; that is, a
design process that produces products that maximize the individual
desirable product characteristics, the Xs. Chapters 7 to 9 cover as-
sembly methods, materials selection and manufacturing processes,
three aspects of the product development cycle that affect the pro-
duct’s cost, time-to-market, producibility, plant productivity and
product reliability. Chapter 10 presents numerous specific sugges-
tions on how the Ip2D2team can satisfy several manufacturing, mar-
keting, social, life-cycle, and environmental requirements.
The last chapter, Chapter 11, introduces a statistical technique
that can be used to improve a product and the processes that make it.
Biren Prasad
EDS/General Motors Account
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