The study of the design process, design theory and methodology has been a preoccupation
of engineers, designers and researchers over the last four to five decades. As the end of this …

Project controls have traditionally been focused on after-the-fact detection of variances. This
thesis proposes a control system, the Last Planner system, that causes the realization of …

Intense competition in many industries forces manufacturing firms to develop new, higher
quality products at an increasingly rapid pace. Overlapping product development activities is …

World-wide markets are becoming increasingly competitive, and in order to sustain market
share organisations are developing a customer-oriented approach for designing and …

A genetic algorithm (GA) approach to support interactive planning of a piping route path in
plant layout design is presented. To present this approach, the paper mainly describes the …

Design of a new artifact begins with incomplete knowledge about the final product and the
design evolves as it progresses from the conceptual design stage to a more detailed design …

This paper presents the state of the art of the research work carried out within the multi-
national collaborative programme IMS-Test Case 3 “Global Concurrent Engineering”. The …

This paper proposes a multi-agent framework to develop product design and planning using
the concurrent engineering approach. The ideas in the framework draw on design-team …

Combinatorial Engineering of Decomposable Systems presents a morphological approach
to the combinatorial design/synthesis of decomposable systems. Applications involve the …

In this paper, we discuss the problem of reducing product development lead time by
overlapping coupled development activities through the exchange of preliminary design …