(geographic) location and, consequently, contribute to the product and process quality. In that sense, it is supposed that application of virtual enterprise (VE) organizational principles contributes to the agility of the work teams, that is, to the concurrent engineering (CE) work teams, or team work, organization. With the objective to test the potential of virtual enterprise (VE) organizatio...

This article analyzes the link between the use of concurrent engineering (CE) and success in new product development (NPD) under varying conditions of uncertainty and complexity—radical versus incremental innovations. Using linear regression, the results obtained indicate that overlapping activities, inter-functional integration and teamwork positively affect NPD performance in terms of develop...

Design of complex Systems-on-a-Chip requires often integration of large teams of engineers who work in remote locations. Seamless and secure integration of distant tools across different organization over the Internet is still one of major challenges that obstacles efficient engineering collaboration. The paper explains the main element of the advanced collaborative infrastructure that supports...

This paper presents an approach to the development of concurrent engineering software applications based on a knowledge sharing technology. In this approach, individual programmers write their programs in the form of separate modules called Software Agents, which interoperate with their peers using an expressive communication standard called Agent Communication Language. The runtime activities ...

This paper presents how a continuous mission verification process similar than in software engineering can be applied in early spacecraft design and Concurrent Engineering. Following the Model-based Systems Engineering paradigm, all engineers contribute to one single centralized data model of the system. The data model is enriched with some extra information to create an executable representati...

The ability to capture and use design rationales, part of what we call Design Rationale Management (DRM), is an important facet of Concurrent Engineering. Galileo2 is a language for constructing interactive design advice systems for Concurrent Engineering, based on a generalization of constraint processing. We briefly describe the features of Galileo2 which make it especially suitable for const...

This report is a review of work published in various journals on the topics of Concurrent Engineering (CE) between 2000 and 28 July, 2010. A total of 80 articles from 28 journals, eight (8) Conference Proceedings and two (2) books were reviewed. This report intends to serve two goals. First, it will be useful to researchers who are interested in understanding and following the recent trends in ...

How Toyota's product design and development process helps find the best solutions and develop successful products. Toyota Motor Corporation is an industry leader in product development lead time while using fewer engineers than its U.S. competitors. It has also shown remarkable consistency in market share growth and profit per vehicle, which led to cash reserves of $21 billion, exceeding those ...

In typical product development processes, like plastic injection mould design, design information flow is not well supported by the current available IT systems. At different stages of a product life cycle, from documentation of requirement specifications, to conceptual design, detailed structure design and production, engineering knowledge is striped off except the bare minimum geometrical and...

Concurrent Engineering (CE) is an organisational arrangement that systematically employs a set of functional disciplines to integrate and simultaneously perform all the tasks that yields to a product satisfying a known list of customer needs. Its chief goals are to shorten the products’ time to market, increase their quality and performance, and reduce their overall life cycle costs, from conce...