Tw. Burns et E. Szczerbicki, IMPLEMENTING CONCURRENT ENGINEERING - CASE-STUDIES FROM EASTERN AUSTRALIA, Concurrent engineering, research and applications, 5(2), 1997, pp. 163-170
Concurrent Engineering (CE) addresses the major technological issues o
i the change from sequential to simultaneous engineering. ii is a syst
ematic approach that enables cooperative work among all groups that pl
an, design, produce, maintain and support the product over its life cy
cle. It calls for multidiscipline teamwork and promotes collaboration
and application oi different skills and knowledge sources. To better u
nderstand the current CE applications in Eastern Australia, a survey w
as conducted oi companies' understanding and approaches to simultaneou
s engineering, and the models and tools they use to suppert their CE a
ctivities. This paper summarises the findings oi the survey and the ca
se studies that followed. From the findings, it was apparent that ther
e is a wide interest in CE across all industries, that benefits to com
panies that used CE, even in partial way, are significant, and that th
ere is a great deal oi commonality among the specific approaches which
this paper captures and unifies as proposed guidelines to CE implemen
tation.