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...

Concurrent engineering (CE) is implemented through a variety of tools, which facilitate the key CE strategies of multi-disciplinary teamwork, concurrent parallel and integrated processes, and upfront consideration of lifecycle issues. Since this concept was first considered as a viable proposition integrating the construction process, various attempts have been made to develop enabling tools fo...

The construction industry has been moving towards concurrent engineering for many year practice, the degree of success achieved through the applicatio considerably. Organisational factors, especially with respect to information management method techniques, coupled with different levels of training and experience of personnel, pl limitations on the level of concurrency and collaborative work th...

Concurrent Class Machines are a novel state-machine model that directly captures a variety of object-oriented concepts, including classes and inheritance, objects and object creation, methods, method invocation and exceptions, multithreading and abstract collection types. The model can be understood as a precise definition of UML activity diagrams which, at the same time, offers an executable, ...

Concurrency is unavoidable in modern software development, owing to the increasing complexity of computer systems and the widespread use of parallel computer hardware. Conventional approaches to concurrency are fraught with danger: in particular, uncontrolled access to shared resources, poor scalability and the inability of the programmer to reason about the correctness of a program. Process-or...

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The primary purpose of this paper is to develop a model to help determine optimal product/service, process and supply chain configurations in a concurrent fashion. For that purpose, a concurrent engineering framework and an optimization model that incorporate supply chain design and life cycle costing concepts are developed. In order to demonstrate and validate the proposed model, a numerical e...

In this paper, the idea of considering software architecture (SA) as a tool for the gradual introduction of Concurrent Engineering (CE) issues in the industrial area is explored. SAs are placed among the first steps in the development of a large software system. Using them following the principles of CE implies some requirements on the supporting infrastructure, that can be met by hyper-linked ...