ABSTRACT
The Concurrent engineering (CE) is growing rapidly in the United States is supported by a survey that put the market for hardware and software for CE projects at $18 million in 1990, growing to $90 million by 1995. The market was being lost to a number of Japanese companies such as Canon and Ricoh, and the information coming back to the corporation suggested that poor quality was the main problem. One corporation involved in aerospace and defense equipment that has adopted CE is Northrop Corporation. Some of the greatest success with CE has been achieved in the electronics industries. Digital Equipment was also in a plight when it first took up concurrent engineering; it needed to do something drastic if it was to turn its entry into the workstation market into a success. Xerox started on its product delivery process, which is CE under another name, in 1980 and has modified it many times since.
