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- From: miket@hermes.tcs.com (Michael Turner nmscore Assoc.)
- Subject: Re: Concurrent Engineering
- Message-ID: <1992Dec29.231547.5304@tcsi.com>
- Sender: news@tcsi.com
- Organization: Teknekron Communications Inc.
- References: <9212241516.aa11630@Paris.ics.uci.edu> <1992Dec29.035115.19473@den.mmc.com>
- Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1992 23:15:47 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec29.035115.19473@den.mmc.com> kummer@possum.den.mmc.com (Jim Kummer) writes:
- >Prof. Nancy Levenson writes:
- >
- >> > Concurrent Engineering was a popular idea in the 1950s.
- >
- >In the '50s the goal of CE may have been to get a product out the door
- >as quickly as possible, at the expense of quality and safety. That is
- >certainly not true today. Completion of the first article may actually
- >take longer with CE than without it, but the goal is that the first
- >article will require less rework in the production phase due to fewer
- >problems in quality, machining, packaging, etc.
-
- Sounds to me that the term has come to mean something different from
- what it was originally. The question is whether it evolved into something
- different, or whether the term has been resurrected to describe a new
- process.
- ---
- Michael Turner
- miket@tcs.com
-