Lidija Rihar (Author), Tena Žužek (Author), Janez Kušar (Author)

Abstract

Today, three conditions are crucial for a company to be competitive on the market: quality, reduced time and low costs for the development of new products. The paper shows how companies developing new products (NPD) for the market can successfully implement concurrent engineering as an improvement of project management, in order to reduce product development time and costs and to ensure the quality expected by customers. The methodology presented in this paper is based on three main pillars of knowledge: project management, teamwork and concurrent engineering. The methodology provides a step-by-step guideline for the introduction of concurrent engineering in a company. This paper also presents the results of 10 Slovenian companies where this methodology has been tested on 20 pilot projects. The results show that managed projects upgraded with the principles of concurrent engineering lead to cost reduction, shorter development time and fewer discrepancies.

Keywords

concurrent engineering;new product development;concurrent engineering tools;hybrid models;teamwork;project management;

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Language: English
Year of publishing:
Typology: 1.01 - Original Scientific Article
Organization: UL FS - Faculty of Mechanical Engineering
UDC: 658.5
COBISS: 35621379 Link will open in a new window
ISSN: 1063-293X
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Secondary language: Slovenian
Secondary keywords: sočasni inženiring;razvoj novega izdelka;hibridni modeli;timsko delo;vodenje projektov;
Type (COBISS): Article
Pages: str. 87-101
Volume: ǂVol. ǂ29
Issue: ǂiss. ǂ2
Chronology: 2021
DOI: 10.1177/1063293X20967929
ID: 13107042