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The paper focuses on the need and the underlying concepts of concurrent engineering approach. It lays out the concurrent engineering methodology for product development. An attempt is made to clarify the prevailing misconceptions about concurrent engineering. Integration is the working foundation for computer-based approaches to concurrent engineering. An architecture of a concurrent engineering system is considered as four levels consisting of an object-oriented data base, an intelligent data base engine, a high-level interface and high-level tools. This architecture combines technologies such as object-oriented programming, expert systems, hypermedia, visual programming, data bases and information retrieval. Within this architecture the integration of processors, humans, tools and methods to form a concurrent engineering environment for the development of products is treated in the context of cooperating knowledge bases.
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Dwivedi, S.N., Sobolewski, M. (1991). Concurrent Engineering: An Introduction. In: Dwivedi, S.N., Verma, A.K., Sneckenberger, J.E. (eds) CAD/CAM Robotics and Factories of the Future ’90. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-84338-9_1
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