ITPEC FE Subject A October 2024 Question 52

Running design and production planning in parallel with development — concurrent engineering overlaps stages that were once done one after another.

Instead of passing a product from design to production engineering to manufacturing one stage at a time, concurrent engineering has cross-functional teams work on these stages at the same time and share information early. Manufacturability problems are caught during design, which shortens development lead time and cuts the cost of rework.

Answer (c)

Why not others:

• •(a) — carrying out design, manufacturing and sales sequentially is conventional sequential development, the opposite of concurrent
• •(b) — analysing a target system to clarify its specifications is reverse engineering
• •(d) — finding the best combination of function and cost to raise value through systematic procedures is value engineering (VE)

Key rule: "Concurrent" means simultaneous: the goal is a shorter lead time by overlapping stages and involving downstream departments from the start.

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