In Concurrent Engineering, several designers in different fields and from different enterprise collaborate to build a product. This organization is a temporal organizational structure, called virtual enterprise. In fact, once the project is realized, the virtual enterprise is dissolved, so the deal in such organization is to keep the volatile knowledge. In this paper, we propose a guide to elab...

Concurrent engineering is an approach to product, process, and organizational design in which experts from many disciplines contribute at many stages of the product life cycle. Even though the design process is mostly cooperative, conflicts among sharply diverging viewpoints may occur, which require negotiated compromise solutions. Design advice tools can assist in this process of negotiation b...

Extended Abstract Successful deployment of knowledge-based systems in design is very limited. It has been suggested that one reason for this is that models of design have focused upon what machines can do and not on how designers actually design. [1]. The Cognitive Engineering Research Programme launched by the UK’s Economic and Social Research Council in 1995 is seeking to achieve this goal by...

This paper presents a systems concurrent engineering approach for the conception of a hybrid vehicle. Traditional approaches focus on the product development organization and product concepts of operation (CONOPS). In traditional approaches, the overall view of the inherent complexity in the development of a product, its life cycle processes and their performing organizations are not taken into...

 ABSTRACT This article highlights the importance of concurrently addressing process, people, and technology factors when conducting research related to new systems engineering concepts. In particular, an ongoing US Department of Defense-sponsored, University of Virginia-led cyber security research project is used as an example of how concurrent research activities provide value earlier in the ...

System engineering is one of the most powerful tools for comprehensive project management and control. This tool emphasized the life cycle of the projects, manages every single activity and helps manage the main elements of the project through a set of management and engineering processes. The goal of the current study is to use a system engineering approach in design phase in order or to meet ...

The development of a CASE tool that supports Jackson’s methods – Problem Frames, JSD and JSP is urged and justified. Jackson’s methods are sound, and fundamental ideas about design provide unity to his thought; in short, his contributions deserve to be part of the software engineering curriculum. A CASE tool would help to achieve this end. Moreover, teachers need a CASE tool to teach software e...

The satellite is a highly complex system due to the tight physical constraints, high reliability requirements, and the scale of the product. Except for some commercial missions, most of the satellites are designed from concept to optimally achieve their missions. Historically, the multidisciplinary team spent several months or even a year to finish the concept design. As the information technol...

Engineering economy set of mathematical techniques for economic evaluation of investment projects that present value and internal rate of return method are among the most important of these methods. Managers and investors have many reasons to using internal rate of return greater willingness shown. This is while the serious problems associated with using internal rate of return method. In recen...