A company's competitive advantage today is directly related to its capability to develop products. For this reason, professional education and training which is an intrinsic part of this development, must be one of every company's main concerns. This is needed in order to reap the full benefits of concurrent engineering techniques and tools and to meet the challenge of a changing global market, where product cycles are increasingly shorter. Within this context, an education environment was developed at a model integrated factory. This approach emphasizes the use of active didactic techniques that maximize the learning process and help in the education of people who work in the area of product development.
| Number of Pages : | 6 |
| Published : | 11/01/1998 |
