
The departments can start their own processes simultaneously. All the departments get a chance to review the design and identify delays and difficulties. Any possible bottleneck in the development process is thoroughly studied and rectified. Even the vendor development department is associated with the prototype development. The team reviews the design from the point of view of marketing, process, tool design and procurement, operation, facility and capacity planning, design for manufacturability, assembly, testing and maintenance, standardization, procurement of components and sub-assemblies, quality assurance etc as the design is evolved. Everyone interacts with each other from the start, and they perform their tasks in parallel.

Representatives from R & D, engineering, manufacturing, materials management, quality assurance, marketing etc. Spectrum of people from several functional areas in the design and manufacture of a product. Concurrent Engineering brings together a wide This is also sometimes referred to as Parallel Engineering. Concurrent engineering or Simultaneous Engineering is a methodology of restructuring the product development activity in a manufacturing organization using a cross-functional team approach and is a technique adopted to improve the efficiency of product design and reduce the product development cycle time.
