This article describes a model of concurrent systems design for developing safety-critical systems. The developed model integrates system design, system safety analysis, and human factors. The model is able to develop the specifications for safety-critical systems easily. System safety analysis is a crucial part of the system effectiveness analysis for safety critical systems that require a con...

The concepts and principles of Concurrent Engineering (CE) have been around for over a decade. In fact the literature is full of examples, studies and surveys advocating the potential accruable benefits of implementing CE. However, how to introduce it in a guided and holistic manner has received lesser attention. This paper attempts to fill this gap by reporting on a 3.5-year research study exp...

DFA (Design for Assembly) is important in that it potentially can reduce the estimated 15-70% of manufacturing cost that is attributable to assembly. Besides the reduction in cost, DFA promises additional benefits in increased quality, increased reliability, and shorter manufacturing time. While there has been considerable interest in DFA, the research that has been reported in this area tends ...

In Concurrent Engineering, several designers (participants) aim at designing a system (artifact), given requirements. Conflict Management in Concurrent Engineering is a complex task in which it is difficult to identify conflicts and to solve them. Reuse of generic components is generally considered as a good help to guide complex task modelling. An overview of our study to define a library of g...

In Concurrent Engineering, several designers in different fields and from different enterprise collaborate to build a product. This organization is a temporal organizational structure, called virtual enterprise. In fact, once the project is realized, the virtual enterprise is dissolved, so the deal in such organization is to keep the volatile knowledge. In this paper, we propose a guide to elab...

This paper describes the use of the Internet and World-Wide Web (WWW) as a means for disseminating information and enabling collaborative working in a Concurrent Engineering (CE) environment. It discusses the authors architecture for a concurrent engineering support environment, the CONCERT environment, and describes the implementation of a WWW-based interface to this environment.

The importance of Concurrent Engineering is rising as businesses compete in the global market. primary variables that influence a company's success are reduction time spent on product creation, improvement quality, production costs, and satisfaction consumers. idea has to be put into practice if high-quality goods produced. It methodical strategy succeeds when all design tasks combined carried ...