In an increasingly competitive and global environment, it is not uncommon for corporations to pursue joint partnerships, and strategic alliances in order to rapidly introduce products and services into the marketplace. These partnerships can and do occur between corporations that are located in countries with significant cultural and societal differences. Inherent in these partnerships is the c...

A software engineering task such as design, programming, debugging, testing, and inspection typically requires the concurrent participation of multiple users, possibly geographically dispersed. However, traditional software engineering environments provide limited support for enabling concurrent software engineering. For instance, they do not allow multiple users to concurrently debug code toge...

Support for Concurrent Engineering must address the “multiple perspectives problem” many actors, many representation schemes, diverse domain knowledge and differing development strategies, all in the context of distributed asynchronous development. Central to this problem is the issue of managing consistency between the various elements of an emerging design. In this paper, we argue that strivi...

Concurrent engineering is an approach to the development of complex systems that characterised by direct communication between disciplines involved. Key this access most current design data all participants at times. This can be done via a dedicated software solution, for which both commercial and open-source tools are available. How these influence outcome class itself, has been discussed exte...

a water jet machining is an industrial tool capable of cutting a wide variety of materials using avery high-pressure jet of water, or a mixture of water and an abrasive substance. this paperaddresses the concept of the intelligent knowledge base system (ikbs) for optimization of productdesign and manufacturing process for water jet machining in computer based concurrentengineering environment. ...

(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...

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 ...