Subject: Best Practices in CE/IPD
Greetings!
It is great pleasure informing you about the publication of the long-awaited book on Integrated Product Development (IPD). It describes the Best Practices in IPD, Concurrent Function Deployment, TQM, QFD, KBE, CAD/CAM, Metrics, CAE, DFX, TVM, Taxonomy, etc.
This is the Second Volume of the CE Fundamentals Book JUST PUBLISHED. The First Volume subtitled >>Integrated Product and Process Organization (IPPO) was published early this year.
Look forward to hearing your feedbacks, if you so kind,
Thanking you,
Biren Prasad, Ph.D. Electronic Data Systems (EDS)/ GM Account
Book Title: Concurrent Engineering Fundamentals Volume II: Integrated Product Development ==============================
Author: Biren Prasad, Ph.D., EDS/General Motors Account Date Published: October 1996, 512 PP., Hardcover, ISBN # 0-13-396496-0 Publisher: Prentice Hall, NJ, USA
BACK-COVER OUTLINE: ===================
Moving beyond "quality." Quality is not the only element of a successful product. For providing a total value to the customers beyond quality, product manufacturers must also consider responsiveness, functionality, development cost, and the tools and technology used in its development and production.
Volume I of Concurrent Engineering Fundamentals introduced, beside many new CE techniques, an integrated taxonomy of product realization process. Volume II explains how to implement those techniques and process to realize a truly integrated product development environment. Using the work-group concept, multi-disciplinary teams can learn to balance the interests of the customers and the company through Total Value Management (TVM) principles to reach a world- class manufacturing leader status.
Identifying and controlling the entire production process is the best way to remain responsive to consumers' changing demands and be competitive in all stages of product development. Utilizing the holistic view of life-cycle management, Concurrent Engineering Fundamentals, Volume II shows how to incorporate the voice of the customer into all nine phases of the product development cycle, assuring the flexibility and competitiveness edge needed to keep pace with evolving markets.
Building on the concurrent product realization structure introduced in Volume I, Volume II of Concurrent Engineering Fundamentals covers:
o 25 metrics and measures for concurrent engineering o A Concurrent Functions Deployment (CFD) concept of considering number of competing values during product development and production -- not just basing decisions on "quality" as found in "QFD" o A range of regenerative techniques of capturing life-cycle intent beyond "design intent" so that the mechanization can happen over its whole life-cycle. o Techniques of Total Value Management (TVM) -- not just managing "quality" as found in "TQM." o Developing and using intelligent information infrastructure and decision support systems for managing all aspects of product integrity and values.
Concurrent Engineering Fundamentals, Volume II includes test problems as well as suggestions for additional reading. Professor and students will find this book appropriate for courses in design education. Practicing engineers, executives managing CE projects, and anyone interested in understanding the process of CE will find this book indispensable.
TABLE OF CONTENTS =================
Concurrent Engineering: Fundamentals Volume 2-- Integrated Product Development Dr. B. Prasad 1996, 500 pp., ISBN # 0-13-396496-0
Introduction: Concurrent Engineering (CE) Wheel Chapter 1: Concurrent Function Deployment Chapter 2: CE Metrics And Measures Chapter 3: Total Value Management Chapter 4: Integrated Product Development Methodology Chapter 5: Frameworks And Architectures Chapter 6: Capturing Life-Cycle Intent Chapter 7: Decision Support Systems Chapter 8: Intelligent Information System Chapter 9: Life-Cycle Mechanization Chapter 10: Implementation Guidelines
HOW DO YOU GET MORE INFORMATION: ================================
Book Orders are taken by CERA Institute, P.O. Box 250254, W. Bloomfield, MI 48325-0254, USA Tel: (810) 696-5487 (Voice) Fax Number: (810) 661-8333/
If you would like to get a copy of the PREFACE/TOCs or to discuss technical details concerning Concurrent Engineering, please direct your inquiries or Email your request to:
Dr. Biren Prasad, Managing Director SE Consultant, Electronic Data Systems (EDS) Email: <bprasad@cmsa.gmr.com>
ABOUT THE AUTHOR ================
Dr. Biren Prasad is a Senior Engineering Consultant at Electronic Data Systems (EDS), working on a Delphi Automotive account of General Motors, where he is in charge of an Automated Concurrent Engineering consulting Group. He has written and co-authored more than 85 technical publications, including 55 archival papers and 9 books. Dr. Prasad's research specialties include: concurrent engineering, knowledge-based engineering, QFD/TQM, AI, structural optimization, systems identification, parametrics, CAD/CAM automation, and design and analysis methods. He holds a degree in engineering from Stanford University and a Ph. D. from the Illinois Institute of Technology in Chicago.
BIREN PRASAD, PH.D. CONCURRENT ENGINEERING Phone Number: (810) 696-5487 Fax Number (810) 661-8333; Email: bprasad@cmsa.gmr.com cc: SMTP --AHIPC2S Biren Prasad
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