Implementing concurrent engineering

Who is Responsible for Human Factors in Engineering Design? The Case of Volvo Powertrain

“…By incorporating human factors criteria in the design stage-gate checklists it may be possible to take better account of these factors throughout the engineering design process. Coordinating HF across design stages may also be easier to support in the context of concurrent engineering allowing easier communication between groups of possible design element interactions [11,28]. In this case, changes of this nature however would involve new stakeholders at the corporate level and with related firms Mack Trucks and Renault.…”

“…This can include both formal structures and procedures that define the responsibilities and communication channels throughout the industrialisation process [10]. The extent to which the company applies concurrent engineering, for example, forms a part of the design of the firms 'development organisation' [11].…”

Production Ergonomics: Identifying and Managing Risk in the Design of High Performance Work Systems

“…While other companies might have other developmental structures, the need to divide large design tasks amongst groups to ensure timely completion is quite common. Recent development in concurrent engineering, for example, appear to have potential for improved attention to human factors (Badham et al, 2000).…”

“…The lateral shifting of elements (flow from left to right) has been used to emphasize time aspects in the developmental process. In many organisations product and production process design are linked in parallel processes called concurrent engineering (Badham et al, 2000;Boujut and Laureillard, 2002;Luczak, 2000). In this model the extent of vertical overlap between design processes in a particular case will indicate concurrency in the engineering process.…”

Neuro-Genetic Design Optimization Framework to Support the Integrated Robust Design Optimization Process in CE

“…It is seen that the integration and optimization play an important role for the performance and quality of the applications in CE and there is a requirement to further improve the performance of integrated optimization systems to overcome the shortcomings [19,[22][23][24][25][26][27][28][29][30].…”