1. Some Interesting Numbers from Boeing Company for Boeing 777 120,000 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

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

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

4. 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

5. 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

6. THE CHRYLSER PLANT

7. BENEFITS OF CONCURRENT ENGINEERING

9. DIGITAL DESIGN AND MANUFACTURING

10. DIGITAL ANALYSIS

11. DIGITAL IMPACT SIMULATION

12. DIGITAL MOCK - UP

13. DIGITAL MOCK -UP TESTING

14. VIRTUAL REALITY TESTING

15. DIGITAL PLANT LAYOUT

16. DIGITAL TOOLING AND FIXTURES

17. 1998 Chrysler Concorde Hood DIGITAL DIE DESIGN

18. RAPID PROTOTYPING

19. CLIMATE TESTING

21. 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.