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The article focuses on the dramatic changes in the manufacturing industry in the last ten years. Design for manufacturability (DFM), continuous process improvement, total quality management, quality function deployment, just-in-time, are among a long list of time-based and computer-based technologies that have recently received more attention from academicians and practitioners. The design of products and processes is one of the most important decisions in manufacturing organizations. It entails basic decisions like what to design, who is going to design it, and method used to design the products. New developments in advanced manufacturing and information technologies have made the use of the concurrent manufacturing approach more practical than the traditional one. Successful implementation of DFM depends on two main factors. First, a commitment and support from top management and a set of computer-based tools and technologies that facilitate the use of DFM philosophy. Organizations implementing concurrent engineering can achieve multiple advantages in terms of better-designed, higher quality products with a shorter time-to-market. |
