The ability to get a product to market faster than your competitors is a crucial success factor in the global marketplace. In addition to leaner work processes and the company-wide availability of data, as offered by modern product lifecycle management solutions, concurrent engineering offers considerable potential to shorten product development cycles.

The basic idea behind concurrent engineering is the partial parallelization of what are really sequential steps. In technical development, this might mean that several designers are working simultaneously on different or even identical components of the same subassembly. Modern CAD and PLM systems provide a whole range of approaches to this concept, which must however be implemented with the correct methodology in order to be of any benefit.

Above and beyond pure design work, concurrent engineering also makes it possible to perform certain product development and production planning tasks simultaneously. Today, these traditionally sequential processes can be largely parallelized through the consistent, standardized supply of product data using appropriate PLM solutions. Another significant benefit of this process is the early identification of design-related production problems.

We can help you harness the potential of concurrent engineering. We are familiar with the processes used in development and production and also the benefits and pitfalls of popular PLM solutions, making us a business partner you can rely on in this field of engineering.