Abstract Supporters of conceptual engineering often use Haslanger’s ameliorative project as a key example their methodology. However, at face value, is no cause for optimism about engineering. If we interpret Haslanger seeking to revise how people in general and understand words such ‘woman’, ‘man’, etc., then her has been unsuccessful. And if reveal the meaning those words, does not involve I ...

Concurrent engineering or overlapping activities is a business strategy for schedule compression on large development projects. Design parameters and tasks from every aspect of a product’s development process and their interdependencies are overlapped and worked on in parallel. Concurrent engineering suffers from negative effects such as excessive rework and increased social and communication c...