From: Biren Prasad
Subject: Integrated Product Develop.-Volume 2 -NOW OUT
Dear Sir:
This is to inform you that Integrated Product Development (IPD) Textbook --
Volume 2 of CE Fundamentals (New Ed.) is just out by Prentice Hall
Publ. (1997). If you are awaiting for this Volume, please contact Prentice
Hall, or your local Book Representative. Additional information attached ..
Please ignore if you have received this in duplicates, Thanks
Biren Prasad
Electronic Data Systems (EDS)
Integrated Product Development (IPD)
General Motors Account, Troy, MI.
Book Title: Concurrent Engineering Fundamentals
Volume II: Integrated Product Development
Author: Biren Prasad, Ph.D., EDS/General Motors Account
Date Published: 1997, 512 PP., Hardcover,
ISBN # 0-13-396496-0
Publisher: Prentice Hall, NJ, USA
WEB PAGE: http://WWW.secs.oakland.edu/SECS_prof_orgs/ISPE/
BACK-COVER OUTLINE:
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Moving beyond "quality."
Quality is not the only element of a successful product.
For providing a total value to the customers beyond
quality, product manufacturers must also consider responsiveness,
functionality, development cost, and the tools and technology used in
development and production.
Volume I of Concurrent Engineering Fundamentals introduced, besides
many CE techniques, an integrated taxonomy of product
realization process. Volume II explains how to implement those
techniques and process to achieve a truly integrated product development
environment. Using the work-group concept, engineering teams
can learn to balance the interests of the customers and the company
to achieve Total Value Management (TVM). TVM principles are important
to reach a world-class manufacturing leadership.
Identifying and controlling the entire production process is the best way
to remain responsive to consumers' changing demands while remaining
competitive in all stages of product development. Utilizing the holistic
view of life-cycle management, Concurrent Engineering Fundamentals,
Volume II shows how to incorporate the voice of the customer into all
nine phases of the product development cycle, assuring the flexibility
and competitiveness edge needed to keep pace with evolving markets.
Building on the concurrent product realization structure introduced in
Volume I, Volume II of Concurrent Engineering Fundamentals covers:
o 25 metrics and measures for concurrent engineering
o Concurrent Functions Deployment (CFD), the concept of considering a
number of competing values during product development and
production -- not just basing decisions on "quality" as found in
"QFD"
o Regenerative techniques of capturing life-cycle intent
beyond "design intent" so mechanization can happen over the
entire life-cycle.
o Techniques of Total Value Management (TVM) -- not just managing
"quality" as found in "TQM."
o Developing and using intelligent information infrastructure and
decision support systems for managing all aspects of product integrity
and values.
Concurrent Engineering Fundamentals, Volume II includes test
problems as well as suggestions for additional reading. Professor and
students will find this book appropriate for courses in design education.
Practicing engineers, executives managing CE projects, and anyone
interested in understanding the process of CE will find this book
indispensable.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
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Concurrent Engineering: Fundamentals
Volume 2-- Integrated Product Development
Dr. B. Prasad
1996, 500 pp., ISBN # 0-13-396496-0
Introduction: Concurrent Engineering (CE) Wheel
Chapter 1: Concurrent Function Deployment
Chapter 2: CE Metrics And Measures
Chapter 3: Total Value Management
Chapter 4: Product Development Methodology
Chapter 5: Frameworks And Architectures
Chapter 6: Capturing Life-Cycle Intent
Chapter 7: Decision Support Systems
Chapter 8: Intelligent Information System
Chapter 9: Life-Cycle Mechanization
Chapter 10: IPD Deployment Methodology
HOW DO YOU GET MORE INFORMATION:
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You can get additional information from the ISPE Web Page as follows:
WEB page >> http://WWW.secs.oakland.edu/SECS_prof_orgs/ISPE/
Information on Concurrent Engineering Wheel is available on the Web
WEB PAGE >> http://rassp.scra.org:80/newsletters/96q1/news_6.html
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Book Orders are taken by
CERA Institute, P.O. Box 250254,
W. Bloomfield, MI 48325-0254, USA
Tel: (248) 265-7453
Fax Number: (248) 661-8333/
If you would like to get a copy of the Table of Contents or to discuss
technical details concerning Concurrent Engineering, please direct your
inquiries or Email your request to:
Dr. Biren Prasad, Managing Director
ACE Director, Electronic Data Systems (EDS)
Email: <bprasad@cmsa.gmr.com>
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
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Dr. Biren Prasad is a Senior ACE Director, IPD at Electronic Data
Systems (EDS). He is working with Delphi Automotive accounts of General
Motors, where he is in charge of an Automated Concurrent Engineering (ACE)
consulting Group. He has written and co-authored more than 85
technical publications, including 65 archival papers and 11 books. Dr.
Prasad's research specialties include: concurrent engineering,
knowledge-based engineering, QFD/TQM, AI, structural optimization,
systems identification, parametrics, CAD/CAM automation, and design
and analysis methods. He holds a degree in engineering from Stanford
and a Ph. D. from the Illinois Institute of Technology in Chicago.
BIREN PRASAD, PH.D.
CONCURRENT ENGINEERING
Phone Number: (248) 265-7453
Fax Number (248) 661-8333; Email: bprasad@cmsa.gmr.com
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