Implementing Concurrent Project Management

Concurrent engineering is a method that reduces the time required to commercialize a new product and take it to market, and enable time and cost schedules to be more realistically estimated. This volume explores concurrent management of projects based on concurrent engineering and provides a step-by-step Total Quality Management procedure for implementing such a process in the planning, scheduling and controlling of technical projects, and broadens the scope to include other key functions such as marketing, materials management, industrial design, finance and human resources.