Concurrent Engineering Book

	List of contributors
	Preface
1	Principles of concurrent engineering	3
2	Concurrent engineering's roots in the World War II era	24
3	Implementation: common failure modes and success factors	42
4	Overcoming barriers to the implementation of concurrent engineering	61
5	Improving interpersonal communications on multifunctional teams	75
6	Scheduling of concurrent manufacturing projects	93
7	Models of design processes	113
8	A decision-based approach to concurrent design	127
9	Concurrent optimization of product design and manufacture	159
10	Computer-based concurrent engineering systems	184
11	Multiattribute design optimization and concurrent engineering	207
12	Concurrent cell design and cell control system configuration	231
13	A generalized methodology for evaluating manufacturability	248
14	Evaluating product machinability for concurrent engineering	264
15	Concurrent optimization of design and manufacturing tolerances	280
16	Design for human factors	297
17	Designing to cost	329
18	Economic design in concurrent engineering	352
19	Application of expert systems to engineering design	375
20	A knowledge-based approach to design for manufacture using features	386
21	Concurrent accumulation of knowledge: a view of concurrent engineering	402
22	Integrated knowledge systems for adaptive, concurrent design	413
23	Automating design for manufacturability through expert systems approaches	426
24	Modeling the design process with Petri nets	447
25	Neuro-computing and concurrent engineering	465
	Index	487