Concurrent engineering can decrease time to market and increase productivity through faster product development, better quality, and fewer engineering changes. It uses cross-functional teams that include members from marketing, R&D, design, production, and more to concurrently design products. For concurrent engineering to be effective, team members must prioritize the project over their individual departments through improved interdepartmental collaboration.

1. Benefits of Concurrent Engineering
 major benefit: decrease in time to market
Other benefits:
Faster product development
Better quality
Less work in progress
Fewer engineering change orders
Increased productivity

2. The CE Teams
• Teams are being used by Concurrent Engineering
(CE)
• These teams include product developers from
marketing, research and development, design,
production, test, and logistics, to name a few, along
with project and program management.
• Suppliers and customers should also be included as
part of the team when appropriate.

3. The CE Teams
• To make concurrent engineering functional, a change
in the way business organization is done must occur.
• Team members must be committed to the project not
to their functional departments.

4. The CE Teams
• Productive designs will be attained through better
interaction among design team members.
• Avoid problems with teams