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A survey on the methods and tools of concurrent new product development and agile manufacturing

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Companies in either manufacturing or servicing have to be restructured or re-organized in order to overcome with challenges of the 21st century in which customers are not only satisfied but also delighted. In this competitive environment, organizations should use a flexible, adaptive and responsive paradigm that can be entitled by a unique term: agile manufacturing (AM). An AM system is able to develop a variety of product at low cost and in a short time period. For this, it has some of useful enabling technologies and physical tools. Among these, concurrent engineering (CE) is a systematic approach to the integrated, concurrent design of product and their related processes, including manufacture and support. It is then a useful and beneficial approach to reduce the development time and manufacturing cost, while simultaneously improving the quality of a product in order to better respond to the customer expectations. The aim of this study is to underline the synergistic impact of new product development (NPD) and CE, (which can be called CNPD), and to survey their methods and tools in association with the AM.

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BüyüKözkan, G., Derelİ, T. & Baykasoğlu, A. A survey on the methods and tools of concurrent new product development and agile manufacturing. Journal of Intelligent Manufacturing 15, 731–751 (2004). https://doi.org/10.1023/B:JIMS.0000042660.77571.81

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