Notes
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Set-Based Concurrent Engineering (SBCE) is a product development approach that allows multifunctional teams to ideate, develop, and communicates sets of conceptual solutions in parallel.
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They gradually narrow these sets by eliminating inferior or infeasible solutions as the team progresses and build up the understanding, knowledge, and evidence about the solution sets.
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Critical decisions are purposely delayed until the last possible moment to gather more information before making the decision.
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Foundation framework of SBCE, based on Toyota's best practices:
- Principle 1: Map The Design Space
- Define feasible regions.
- Explore trade-offs by designing multiple alternatives.
- Communicate sets of possibilities.
- Principle 2: Integrate by Intersection
- Look for intersections of feasible sets.
- Impose minimum constraints.
- Seek conceptual robustness.
- Principle 3: Establish Feasibility Before Commitment
- Narrow sets gradually while increasing details.
- Stay within sets once committed.
- Control by managing uncertainty at process gates.
- Principle 1: Map The Design Space