Some Interesting Numbers from Boeing Company for Boeing ,000 employees, 88,000 in Seattle 6 million parts from 7 countries and 40 states to assembly and build the plane The assembly plant can hold entire Disney Land, or 77 football fields, or all NBA games. A gate is a football size. No air-conditioning, open door cooling and light heating, electricity bill $ 1 million/month

TECHNOLOGY FOR TODAY AND TOMORROW A Typical Application Example of Concurrent Engineering In Chrysler Corporation

Annual Sales of Automotive Industry Sales in 1998 Chrysler65 Billion Ford125 Billion General Motor200 Billion We all use concurrent engineering methodology

Chrysler Manufacturing Strategy We only make engine, transmission and body. We buy more than 70% components from outside vendors. We separate our design teams as: Large car, Small Car, Mini Van, Truck and Jeep, not like traditional, one department deals with all the cars. We bought 30 billion parts from outside in 1997, and we still make 3 billion dollars profit

CE Characters Supplier: Part of family and extended platform. Sit-in but not Chrysler employee Co-Location: all team sit in one floor, communicate instantly. Tech Club: will solve the duplicate/redundant problems, there are about 70 tech clubs Information flow among the platform, cross-grid. DesignBodyEngineeringSupplyPurchaseFinanceManuf.Supplier General Manager for Small Car

THE CHRYLSER PLANT

BENEFITS OF CONCURRENT ENGINEERING

DIGITAL DESIGN AND MANUFACTURING

DIGITAL ANALYSIS

DIGITAL IMPACT SIMULATION

DIGITAL MOCK - UP

DIGITAL MOCK -UP TESTING

VIRTUAL REALITY TESTING

DIGITAL PLANT LAYOUT

DIGITAL TOOLING AND FIXTURES

1998 Chrysler Concorde Hood DIGITAL DIE DESIGN

RAPID PROTOTYPING

CLIMATE TESTING

Home Work 1. After these two lectures what have you learned on concurrent engineering? Do you think CE necessary and important? 2. Find one or two papers/articles about CE and its applications from web or library.