コンカレントエンジニアリングを採用する目的として, 最も適切なものはどれか。
令和8年度 ITパスポート試験 問18
This question's explanation and your answers so far.
問 18
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正解 Concurrent engineering is an approach in which the stages of product development—design, prototyping, production preparation, and so on—are advanced in parallel by the relevant departments sharing information, instead of the traditional serial flow where each stage starts only after the previous one finishes. Because the stages overlap, the overall lead time is compressed, and problems in later stages can be found early so that rework is reduced, which shortens the development period and delivery time. Therefore 'ア' is correct.
Incorrectイ
Ensuring security is a goal achieved through the product's security requirements, threat analysis, secure design, and the like; it is not the purpose of concurrent engineering, which parallelizes the stages to shorten the schedule.
Incorrectウ
Ensuring energy-saving performance is a matter of product specifications and required quality—a separate issue from how the development stages are carried out (parallelization); it is not the outcome that concurrent engineering directly aims for.
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Applying the latest technology relates to technology selection and R&D policy, which differs from the main purpose of this method—running the stages in parallel to shorten the delivery time.
- Concurrent engineering = a method that advances multiple stages such as design and manufacturing in parallel to shorten the development period and delivery time (with the added effects of reducing rework and finding problems early).
- For a question asking the 'purpose,' choose the aim that the definition of the method itself points to (here, shortening the lead time).