A case study of concurrent engineering application on the development of parts for the white goods industry in Brazil

• Autor(a) principal: Canciglieri Jr., Osiris
• Data de Publicação: 2010
• Outros Autores: De Sampaio, R. J B, Kovalchuk, J. P B, De Souza, Teófilo Miguel [UNESP]
• Tipo de documento: Artigo de conferência
• Idioma: eng
• Título da fonte: Repositório Institucional da UNESP
• Texto Completo: http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/ICCIE.2010.5668327; http://hdl.handle.net/11449/72038
• topic: DFM/DFA; Plastic parts; Product development; White goods products; Cost saving; Design for manufacturing and assemblies; Engineering applications; High pressure; Massive production; Product development process; Quality standard; Short term; White goods; Aerospace industry; Concurrent engineering; Cost reduction; Industrial engineering; Machine design; Soft computing; Standardization; Washers

This classical way to manage product development processes for massive production seems to be changing: high pressure for cost reduction, higher quality standards, markets reaching for innovation lead to the necessity of new tools for development control. Into this, and learning from the automotive and aerospace industries factories from other segments are starting to understand and apply manufacturing and assembly oriented projects to ease the task of generate goods and from this obtain at least a part of the expected results. This paper is intended to demonstrate the applicability of the concepts of Concurrent Engineering and DFM/DFA (Design for Manufacturing and Assembly) in the development of products and parts for the White Goods industry in Brazil (major appliances as refrigerators, cookers and washing machines), showing one case concerning the development and releasing of a component. Finally is demonstrated in a short term how was reached a solution that could provide cost savings and reduction on the time to delivery using those techniques.