Criterios de transferibilidad del enfoque concurrente en los procesos de dise？o y desarrollo de productos de las peque？as y medianas empresas chilenas

the results of the first stage of a study aimed at generating a model for the evaluation and improvement of product design and development processes (pddp) of chilean small and middle size enterprises (smes) based on the concurrent approach with the aim of inserting them in current competitive markets are presented. many authors have shown that in our globalized society the ability of a company to provide good guidance and development of the product design stages determines largely its industrial efficiency. in particular, models based on concurrent engineering (ce) seem to be the most appropriate to respond rapidly and adequately to ever more demanding markets. however, there are few studies showing the applicability of these models to smes. therefore this first stage is aimed at establishing transferability criteria of the concurrent approach in small and middle size companies, analyzing the technical and experimental corpus related to ce and its application in smes, contrasting these analyses with the first results of an exploratory and qualitative investigation of three chilean manufacturing smes. these transferability criteria are based on the one hand on an interpretation of the concurrent approach from the existing literature and the performance pattern of the smes in order to highlight the particular critical sizes, and on the other hand on an analysis of the type of intervention model that will allow its implementation in these kinds of companies.