Component engineering
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Component engineering is an engineering
discipline primarily used to assure the availability of suitable components required to manufacture a larger product.
The term combines two ideas, whereas:
Those who professionally practice primarily this discipline are called component engineers. Component engineers are typically responsible for the "selection, approval/qualification, documentation, and management of all purchased components and direct material utilized to produce an [...] end product".
Component engineers typically qualify interchangeable parts
obtained from sources outside their organization, generally referred to as vendors.
Because of the high numbers of components used in electronic assemblies, component engineering is often closely associated with their design and manufacture.
Engineering
Engineering is the discipline, art, skill and profession of acquiring and applying scientific, mathematical, economic, social, and practical knowledge, in order to design and build structures, machines, devices, systems, materials and processes that safely realize improvements to the lives of...
discipline primarily used to assure the availability of suitable components required to manufacture a larger product.
The term combines two ideas, whereas:
- a component is a smaller, self-contained partPartPart may refer to:*Part *Part , a relation in mereology*Part , the music played or sung by an individual instrument or voice*Parts , a 1997 children's book by Tedd Arnold...
of a larger entity, and - engineeringEngineeringEngineering is the discipline, art, skill and profession of acquiring and applying scientific, mathematical, economic, social, and practical knowledge, in order to design and build structures, machines, devices, systems, materials and processes that safely realize improvements to the lives of...
is the disciplineDisciplineIn its original sense, discipline is referred to systematic instruction given to disciples to train them as students in a craft or trade, or to follow a particular code of conduct or "order". Often, the phrase "to discipline" carries a negative connotation. This is because enforcement of order –...
and professionProfessionA profession is a vocation founded upon specialized educational training, the purpose of which is to supply disinterested counsel and service to others, for a direct and definite compensation, wholly apart from expectation of other business gain....
of applying scienceScienceScience is a systematic enterprise that builds and organizes knowledge in the form of testable explanations and predictions about the universe...
(knowledge) for the benefit of people.
Those who professionally practice primarily this discipline are called component engineers. Component engineers are typically responsible for the "selection, approval/qualification, documentation, and management of all purchased components and direct material utilized to produce an [...] end product".
Component engineers typically qualify interchangeable parts
Interchangeable parts
Interchangeable parts are parts that are, for practical purposes, identical. They are made to specifications that ensure that they are so nearly identical that they will fit into any device of the same type. One such part can freely replace another, without any custom fitting...
obtained from sources outside their organization, generally referred to as vendors.
Because of the high numbers of components used in electronic assemblies, component engineering is often closely associated with their design and manufacture.
See also
- engineeringEngineeringEngineering is the discipline, art, skill and profession of acquiring and applying scientific, mathematical, economic, social, and practical knowledge, in order to design and build structures, machines, devices, systems, materials and processes that safely realize improvements to the lives of...
- just-in-time
- list of engineering branches
- manufacturing engineeringManufacturing engineeringManufacturing engineering is a field dealing with different manufacturing practices and the research and development of processes, machines and equipment.-Overview:...