A STUDY OF CONCURRENT ENGINEERING PRACTICES IN MALAYSIAN INDUSTRIES
Abstract
Concurrent engineering is considered as a key concept that enables manufacturing companies to develop new products rapidly with cost saving, without affecting its quality. The purpose of this paper is to report the evaluation of the level of practices of concurrent engineering in Malaysian manufacturing industries. This evaluation was carried out by sending the questionnaire to the appropriate manufacturing companies. The survey results were gathered and transformed into graphs, followed by the discussion in order to provide a clear explanation. From the survey conducted, it was found that most of the Malaysian manufacturing companies were working in line with the concept of concurrent engineering in new product development processes, although they did not understand what concurrent engineering is. Therefore, this concept could be considered new in Malaysian industries.
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