Vendor Involvement and Concurrent Engineering: Methods in Reducing Development Time For New Model in Automotive Industry

A study of method improvement to reduce development time for new model in automotive industry is presented in this paper. The approach taken is by studying the existing practice in car development. It was found that in the current practice of car development, project planning and master schedule wer...

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Main Authors: Nik Mohamed, Nik Mohd. Zuki, Sastra, Hasan Yudie, Salit, Mohd. Sapuan, Ismail, Napsiah, Raj Arora, Prithivi, Abdul Hamid, Abu Bakar
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Language:English
Published: Universiti Teknologi Malaysia 2005
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author Nik Mohamed, Nik Mohd. Zuki
Sastra, Hasan Yudie
Salit, Mohd. Sapuan
Ismail, Napsiah
Raj Arora, Prithivi
Abdul Hamid, Abu Bakar
author_facet Nik Mohamed, Nik Mohd. Zuki
Sastra, Hasan Yudie
Salit, Mohd. Sapuan
Ismail, Napsiah
Raj Arora, Prithivi
Abdul Hamid, Abu Bakar
author_sort Nik Mohamed, Nik Mohd. Zuki
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description A study of method improvement to reduce development time for new model in automotive industry is presented in this paper. The approach taken is by studying the existing practice in car development. It was found that in the current practice of car development, project planning and master schedule were not officially endorsed by all related departmental heads, which resulted in too ambitious and unrealistic schedules. Other problem includes lack of comprehensive market research to gauge the car implementation timing, styling and manufacturing trend in the process of project planning. It was also found that benchmarking exercise was carried out on already released product and for future product. The study suggested various ways for method improvement such as through effective benchmarking process, audit of vendor capability, excellent computer facility, official endorsement of project planning and master schedule by related departmental heads and comprehensive market research.
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spelling utm-11222017-10-05T03:40:41Z http://eprints.utm.my/1122/ Vendor Involvement and Concurrent Engineering: Methods in Reducing Development Time For New Model in Automotive Industry Nik Mohamed, Nik Mohd. Zuki Sastra, Hasan Yudie Salit, Mohd. Sapuan Ismail, Napsiah Raj Arora, Prithivi Abdul Hamid, Abu Bakar A study of method improvement to reduce development time for new model in automotive industry is presented in this paper. The approach taken is by studying the existing practice in car development. It was found that in the current practice of car development, project planning and master schedule were not officially endorsed by all related departmental heads, which resulted in too ambitious and unrealistic schedules. Other problem includes lack of comprehensive market research to gauge the car implementation timing, styling and manufacturing trend in the process of project planning. It was also found that benchmarking exercise was carried out on already released product and for future product. The study suggested various ways for method improvement such as through effective benchmarking process, audit of vendor capability, excellent computer facility, official endorsement of project planning and master schedule by related departmental heads and comprehensive market research. Universiti Teknologi Malaysia 2005-01 Article PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://eprints.utm.my/1122/1/AbuBakarAbdulHamid2005_%20VendorInvolvementandConcurrentEngineeringMethods.pdf Nik Mohamed, Nik Mohd. Zuki and Sastra, Hasan Yudie and Salit, Mohd. Sapuan and Ismail, Napsiah and Raj Arora, Prithivi and Abdul Hamid, Abu Bakar (2005) Vendor Involvement and Concurrent Engineering: Methods in Reducing Development Time For New Model in Automotive Industry. Jurnal Malaysia . pp. 17-23. ISSN 1675 - 1930 http://www.jurnal-kemanusiaan.utm.my/index.php/kemanusiaan/article/view/134
spellingShingle Nik Mohamed, Nik Mohd. Zuki
Sastra, Hasan Yudie
Salit, Mohd. Sapuan
Ismail, Napsiah
Raj Arora, Prithivi
Abdul Hamid, Abu Bakar
Vendor Involvement and Concurrent Engineering: Methods in Reducing Development Time For New Model in Automotive Industry
title Vendor Involvement and Concurrent Engineering: Methods in Reducing Development Time For New Model in Automotive Industry
title_full Vendor Involvement and Concurrent Engineering: Methods in Reducing Development Time For New Model in Automotive Industry
title_fullStr Vendor Involvement and Concurrent Engineering: Methods in Reducing Development Time For New Model in Automotive Industry
title_full_unstemmed Vendor Involvement and Concurrent Engineering: Methods in Reducing Development Time For New Model in Automotive Industry
title_short Vendor Involvement and Concurrent Engineering: Methods in Reducing Development Time For New Model in Automotive Industry
title_sort vendor involvement and concurrent engineering: methods in reducing development time for new model in automotive industry
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http://eprints.utm.my/1122/1/AbuBakarAbdulHamid2005_%20VendorInvolvementandConcurrentEngineeringMethods.pdf