Concurrent engineering is considered as a key concept that enables manufacturing companies to develop new products rapidly with cost saving, without affecting its quality. The purpose of this paper is to report the evaluation of the level of practices of concurrent engineering in Malaysian manufacturing industries. This evaluation was carried out by sending the questionnaire to the appropriate ...

The construction industry has been moving towards concurrent engineering for many years. However, in practice, the degree of success achieved through the application of concurrent engineering varies considerably. Organizational factors, especially with respect to information management methods and techniques coupled with different levels of training and experience of personnel, place considerab...

This article proposes a Serious Game about 'Set-Based Concurrent Engineering', which is one of the elements of lean practices in product design and development. Although Set-Based Concurrent Engineering is becoming popular in academia, in practice, understanding and adoption of it are low. Thus, the game presented in this article is designed to bring hands-on experience to practitioners to unde...

In the wake of globalization, concurrent engineering (CE) is a promising for design, modification and development of new products for the challenging Indian organizations. Success of CE demands that key areas of new product design and development of an organization need to be under constant focus. Most of the companies adopt CE procedures to reduce the time for introducing new product in to the...

A water jet machining is an industrial tool capable of cutting a wide variety of materials using a very high-pressure jet of water, or a mixture of water and an abrasive substance. This paper addresses the concept of the Intelligent knowledge base system (IKBS) for optimization of product design and manufacturing process for water jet machining in computer based concurrent engineering environme...

An explicit representation of various dependence relationship in a program has many application in software engineering. System Dependence Net is a model to represent program dependences in a concurrent program which consists of multiple procedures. This paper presents how to generate System Dependence Net for Ada 95 programs automatically.

The STEP Entity Control System for Concurrent Engineering (SECS/CE) is an archive and version control system that facilitates concurrent engineering by allowing engineers to merge concurrent changes, find conflicts between concurrent changes, ask questions about the contents of changes and designs, and resolve conflicts between design versions produced by concurrent changes, during the design o...

A water jet machining is an industrial tool capable of cutting a wide variety of materials using a very high-pressure jet of water, or a mixture of water and an abrasive substance. This paper addresses the concept of the Intelligent knowledge base system (IKBS) for optimization of product design and manufacturing process for water jet machining in computer based concurrent engineering environme...

While there's general agreement that the software engineering field is in great need of major advances, efforts are dispersed and not always directed to the really critical needs. I will present a view of what is fundamentally needed to produce real progress. The view is influenced by my own concerns and the talk is also an opportunity to present the research of my groups at ETH and Eiffel Soft...