The paper provides a comprehensive insight into current trends and developments in Concurrent Engineering for integrated development of products and processes with the goal of completing the entire cycle in a shorter time, at lower overall cost and with fewer engineering design changes after product launch. The evolution and definition of Concurrent Engineering are addressed first, followed by ...

Concurrent Engineering has been successfully implemented in mainly large companies. CEPRA aims to introduce and optimise Concurrent Engineering in small and medium companies. Therefore, a methodology and a software system has been developed. The paper outlines the CEPRA methodology to establish Concurrent Engineering in small and medium companies; in addition an overview of the CEPRA consulting...

It is pointed out that what concurrent engineering contributed to industry is that our knowledge is non-physical so that it can be shared. Although traditional concurrent engineering contributed very greatly in reducing time to market and reducing cost, it only paid attention to 1 dimension, i.e. time. But if we expand concurrent engineering into 2 dimensions, i.e. time and space, we can integr...

The research and development in the area of computer integrated construction have looked at various fragments of the domain to be used as a glue for the integration of the profession. Examples of these fragments include products and processes. In this paper, environment modelling is suggested, as an approach that provides a more complete picture of the domain requires the support of information...