Toyota's principles of set-based concurrent engineering

Sobek, D. K., Ward, & Liker, J. K. (1999). Toyota's principles of set-based concurrent engineering. Sloan Management Review, 40(2), 67-83.

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Primary research

Year

1999

Volume

40

Issue

2

Pages

67-83

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https://sloanreview.mit.edu/article/toyotas-principles-of-setbased-concurrent-engineering/

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Primes

• Branching and Merging
  • Design, R&D, and engineering: Divergent prototype or design variants are explored in parallel to hedge uncertainty, then integrated by recombining the best features of each into a converged design — set-based concurrent engineering deliberately delays the merge to keep options open while exploration is cheap.

    This sourceDescribes set-based concurrent engineering: divergent design variants are explored in parallel and the convergence (merge) to a single design is deliberately delayed to keep options open while the design space is cheap to explore.

Mechanisms

• Big-Room Planning or Concurrent Set-Based Workshop
  • Keep option sets open where interfaces are unstable. Delay commitment on coupled decisions, narrowing the set as knowledge arrives (set-based concurrent engineering

    This sourceDescribes set-based concurrent engineering as exploring alternatives in parallel, narrowing them as knowledge grows, and establishing feasibility before commitment.

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