Proyectos de ingeniería en colaboración entre la propiedad y los distintos contratistas como factor de mejora de la competitividad

Abstract

Within a global economy, an enterprise, besides its near suppliers must find others more efficient in time to deliver, price and service. To reduce time to deliver, complete system engineering and detailed engineering must be executed in parallel. Thus, “Concurrent or Simultaneous Engineering” must be used. This concept is not at all new (it can be found during the last two decades in literature), but now technology is ready and available: nonexpensive broad-band communications. To reduce time to deliver at the same time as to increase quality, an early error elimination is needed, thus avoiding those errors propagates to the following tasks, increasing the cost to eliminate errors from 10 to 100 times the cost of early correction. The Engineering Department and/or the R&D Department are the focus for collaborative work application, always with the objective of cutting cost for product development and reduce time to market. More important, when several tasks are subcontracted outside to third enterprises, and those enterprises must work as they were part of the contractor. Automotive and Aerospace sectors are typical examples of this requirement, but it must not be forgotten electronics and mechatronics, and, of course, development of civil engineering projects. The results of the MODULA project: “Management Organisation MODels for Use in ColLAborative Product Development (CPD) applied along product to order supply chain”, are funded by University-Enterprise Programme and by 3 enterprises: ABGAM (Mechanical Engineering), IDOM (vast areas of activity; Industrial Plant Engineering has been selected), and TELKROM (Telecommunication Engineering). With the help of those enterprises their requirements are collected, and so those of their customers and suppliers. Several pilot projects were developed using different systems: Document Management, Project management, and PLM, Product Lifecycle Management. Those pilot projects with the extracted conclusions will be presented as follows.