NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

P. O. Box AC 939, Ascot, Bulawayo, Zimbabwe Cnr. Gwanda Road/Cecil Avenue

Telephones: 263-292-282842/288413/39/58 or 263-292-286742
Fax: 263-292-289057
Department of Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering

Course Code and Title: Concurrent Engineering EIE 3222

Lecturer: I. MAPINDU
Cell: 0777912241
Email: innocent.mapindu@nust.ac.zw .

Course Outline

1.0 Introduction to concurrent engineering

2.0 Product/ systems development
2.1 Concept development
2.2 Concept generation
2.3 Concept selection
3.0 Characteristics of a product
3.1Product architecture
3.2Product Life cycle
4.0 Value Engineering/Analysis.

5.0 Design for X (DFX).

5.1 Design for Manufacture and Assembly (DFMA).
5.2 Design for Assembly (DFA).
5.3 Assembleability Evaluation Methods (AEM).
5.4 Design for Manufacturability (DFM).
5.5 Design for X (Compatibility, Green, Logistics, etc).

6.0 Taguchi Quality Control

6.1 System Design.
6.2 Robust Design.
6.3 Tolerance Design.
 NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
P. O. Box AC 939, Ascot, Bulawayo, Zimbabwe Cnr. Gwanda Road/Cecil Avenue
Telephones: 263-292-282842/288413/39/58 or 263-292-286742
Fax: 263-292-289057
Department of Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering

MODES OF ASSESSMENT

1. 1 individual assignment
2. 1 Group project
3. Group presentations
4. Examination

Textbooks
Ulrich, K. T. and Eppinger, S. D., (2008) "Product Design and Development", McGraw-Hill
Eduction Asia, Singapore.

Borjesson, F. (2012) Approaches to modularity in product architecture, Phd Thesis, Royal

Institute of Technology Stockholm.

D. Waters, Operations Management, Addison Wesley, 1996.

S. D. Eppinger, K. T. Ulrich, Product Design and Development, McGraw Hill, 1995.

B. Prasad, Concurrent Engineering Fundamentals, Prentice Hall PTR, 1997.

B. Lilly, Design for Manufacturing: Lecture Notes, Ohio State University, 1999.

S. Kambani, N. J. Kwendakwema, The Role of R&D in Economic Development, The

Engineering Institution of Zambia, 1995

L.Cohen, Quality Function Deployment, Addison Wesley, 1995.

C. McMahon, CAD/CAM, Addison Wesley, 1998

J.R. Hauser and Don Clausing, The House of Quality, Harvard Business Review, 1988

Product Design and Development. Karl T. Ulrich and Steven D. Eppinger Sixth Edition,
McGraw-Hill, New York, 2016.

Systems Engineering and Analysis (5th Edition) (Prentice Hall International Series in
Industrial & Systems Engineering) [Benjamin S. Blanchard, Wolter J.