Title: Concurrent Engineering: Enabling Traceability and Mutual Understanding
Abstract: Concurrent engineering requires the cooperation of people coming from different phases of the engineering process. Traceability between the different views (products), which exist in such cross-functional teams, is essential for enabling mutual understanding. Moreover, the different views must be related to each other and must be presented in a suitable way to support finding and resolving of inconsistencies, conflicts, and different opportunities. We have developed and implemented a concurrent engineering environment, called PRO-ART, which is based on four main ideas: • record, use, and maintain the various products using formal product models; • capture the relationships between the products detected during process performance; • present the relations based on the ideas of the House of Quality (Co Decide); • provide a computer based environment, which hides the formal models and automates the recording of products and their interrelations. The recording and situated retrieval of the information is enabled by a deductive and object oriented repository.
Publication Year: 1994
Publication Date: 1994-12-01
Language: en
Type: article
Indexed In: ['crossref']
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