In the wake of globalization, concurrent engineering (CE) is a promising for design, modification and development of new products for the challenging Indian organizations. Success of CE demands that key areas of new product design and development of an organization need to be under constant focus. Most of the companies adopt CE procedures to reduce the time for introducing new product in to the...

Engineering is a knowledge intensive process. Many tools are known that are able to support the knowledge management in these processes but do not relate to the flow and conversion of knowledge, especially in concurrent engineering processes. In this paper a modelling approach for knowledge intensive processes is presented that combines advantages of business process modelling with the necessar...

A graphical approach to modelling engineering design processes is presented, drawing on Pugh’s Total Design model, the V-Process Model of software and systems engineering and Role Activity Diagrams. The proposed notation combines and extends these representations in a novel way. The concurrent, multidisciplinary characteristic of Pugh’s model is retained and extended to embrace concurrent devel...

An explicit representation of various dependence relationship in a program has many application in software engineering. System Dependence Net is a model to represent program dependences in a concurrent program which consists of multiple procedures. This paper presents how to generate System Dependence Net for Ada 95 programs automatically.

The STEP Entity Control System for Concurrent Engineering (SECS/CE) is an archive and version control system that facilitates concurrent engineering by allowing engineers to merge concurrent changes, find conflicts between concurrent changes, ask questions about the contents of changes and designs, and resolve conflicts between design versions produced by concurrent changes, during the design o...

While there's general agreement that the software engineering field is in great need of major advances, efforts are dispersed and not always directed to the really critical needs. I will present a view of what is fundamentally needed to produce real progress. The view is influenced by my own concerns and the talk is also an opportunity to present the research of my groups at ETH and Eiffel Soft...

This paper presents a knowledge engineering approach for the elicitation of know-how about engineering processes, the reuse of process patterns and its application to the coordination of concurrent engineering tasks. Process know-how is instrumental to govern engineering teams. Process know-how also leads to better process awareness, that is, pro-active services deliver related information at t...

The concepts and principles of Concurrent Engineering (CE) have been around for over a decade. In fact the literature is full of examples, studies and surveys advocating the potential accruable benefits of implementing CE. However, how to introduce it in a guided and holistic manner has received lesser attention. This paper attempts to fill this gap by reporting on a 3.5-year research study exp...

Advanced marine design, particularly in the United States, advocates the use of cross-functional design teams, or Integrated Product Teams (IPT’s), who will undertake a concurrent engineering approach to all phases of ship design. Further, the study of the world-class Toyota automotive design process has highlighted the potential of a set-based design approach in concurrent engineering to provi...

In Concurrent Engineering, several designers (participants) aim at designing a system (artifact), given requirements. Conflict Management in Concurrent Engineering is a complex task in which it is difficult to identify conflicts and to solve them. Reuse of generic components is generally considered as a good help to guide complex task modelling. An overview of our study to define a library of g...