Technology and market changes introduce uncertainty and equivocality in the product development arena, and firms are considering various structural relationships to help them cope with these changes. Concurrent engineering (CE) is a mechanism that can reduce uncertainty and equivocality and improve an organization’s competitive capabilities. CE is typically manifested through concurrent work-fl...

This report addresses the theoretical basis for building a prototyping environment for electro mechanical systems using concurrent engineering approach In Designing a robot manipulator as an example of electro mechanical systems the interaction be tween several modules S W VLSI CAD CAM Robotics and Control illustrates an interdisciplinary prototyping environment that includes di erent types of ...

In 1991, attainment of independence in Slovenia caused a drastic decrease in the domestic market for Slovenian companies. The companies which did not adapt to the new market conditions were destined for ruin. In this time several smaller companies were established which could adapt to new market conditions more easily. When these companies entered the world market they encountered several diffi...

The development of concurrent object-oriented programs, from a software engineering perspective, must possess a set of features to allow control of its inherent complexities, such as non-determinism. This dissertation contributes the definition of an approach for constructing concurrent object-oriented programs. The approach is rooted in a divide-and-conquer strategy, in which functional and no...

Concurrent Engineering (CE) in an important facet of Enterprise Integration. Galileo3 is a language for constructing interactive design advice systems for CE, based on a generalization of constraint processing. We briefly overview the language, emphasizing the features which we believe make it especially suitable for constructing applications to support task coordination in CE. Then we provide ...

The SART (Space Launcher Systems Analysis) group of the German Aerospace Center DLR has the task of examining all types of future space launch systems and the thereof required engines by means of modern, computer-aided methods. One of the fundamental aims is to reduce the cost of access to space through the identification of eligible technology. Activities range from stand-alone preliminary stu...

Many requirements to product data technology for concurrent engineering can be most efficiently satisfied through the application of advanced client/server architectures enhanced with appropriate knowledge-based methods. This paper outlines the basic design considerations for a knowledge-based product data client/server system and suggests a development approach on the example of a prototype se...

Many requirements to product data management for concurrent engineering can be most efficiently satisfied through the application of advanced client/server architectures together with appropriate knowledge-based methods. This paper outlines the basic design considerations for a knowledge-based product data server and suggests a development approach on the example of a prototype server implement...

RDF is one of the cornerstones of the Semantic Web. It can be considered as a knowledge representation common language based on a graph model. In the functional programming community, inductive graphs have been proposed as a purely functional representation of graphs, which makes reasoning and concurrent programming simpler. In this paper, we propose a simplified representation of inductive gra...