MANAGEMENT OF DESIGN ACTIVITIES IN A CONCURRENT ENGINEERING ENVIRONMENT

Concurrent Engineering Management is an engineering management philoso phy for simultaneously addressing both the engineering as well as the operational management aspects of the product design process. In this paper, our focus is on the operational aspects of the Concurrent Engin eering Management. For this purpose a quantitative decision making mod el is developed to manage both the cost and the schedule during the pr oduct development process. The proposed model is a fixed charge proble m which is solved by a mixed integer programming algorithm. Furthermor e, an example as well as a linear programming version of the model are presented.