Concurrent engineering is an imperative concept in the world of product development. With the globalisation of industry, the market has been demanding higher quality products at lower costs, delivered at faster pace. With most companies today accepting the concurrent engineering approach as a formula for product development success, this approach is becoming ever more popular and dominating over the slower sequential product development method. Fast changes in technology, forced design cycle time reduction, emergence of new information technology and methodologies, as well as other aspects such as organisational and behavioural basis caused the sequential design process to progress into a concurrent engineering approach. The basic concept behind the concurrent engineering approach is that all parts of the design, manufacture, production, management, finance, and marketing of the product are usually involved in the early stages of a product’s design cycle, enabling faster product development through extensive use of simulation. Its key approach is to get the right data for the right person at the right time. There are forces that govern changes in the product development, and these forces must be steered towards prompt response to competition and higher productivity in order for companies to exist and successfully expand in the global market place. Concurrent engineering is made up of four key dimensions, one of them the communication infrastructure dimension, which is the focus of this study. This study defines the information infrastructure dimension, and some of the tools and technologies that support communication and collaboration. It then discusses how to employ the concurrent engineering approach from a communication infrastructure dimension point of view, starting with assessing the current product development process and eventually envisioning the path to take to a successful concurrent engineering environment. Communication infrastructure technologies and tools can be seen as central to a company’s implementation of concurrent engineering, as shown in the case studies covered in this work.

Concurrent engineering is an imperative concept in the world of product development. With the globalisation of industry, the market has been demanding higher quality products at lower costs, delivered at faster pace. With most companies today accepting the concurrent engineering approach as a formula for product development success, this approach is becoming ever more popular and dominating over the slower sequential product development method. Fast changes in technology, forced design cycle time reduction, emergence of new information technology and methodologies, as well as other aspects such as organisational and behavioural basis caused the sequential design process to progress into a concurrent engineering approach. The basic concept behind the concurrent engineering approach is that all parts of the design, manufacture, production, management, finance, and marketing of the product are usually involved in the early stages of a product’s design cycle, enabling faster product development through extensive use of simulation. Its key approach is to get the right data for the right person at the right time. There are forces that govern changes in the product development, and these forces must be steered towards prompt response to competition and higher productivity in order for companies to exist and successfully expand in the global market place. Concurrent engineering is made up of four key dimensions, one of them the communication infrastructure dimension, which is the focus of this study. This study defines the information infrastructure dimension, and some of the tools and technologies that support communication and collaboration. It then discusses how to employ the concurrent engineering approach from a communication infrastructure dimension point of view, starting with assessing the current product development process and eventually envisioning the path to take to a successful concurrent engineering environment. Communication infrastructure technologies and tools can be seen as central to a company’s implementation of concurrent engineering, as shown in the case studies covered in this work.

Concurrent engineering is an imperative concept in the world of product development. With the globalisation of industry, the market has been demanding higher quality products at lower costs, delivered at faster pace. With most companies today accepting the concurrent engineering approach as a formula for product development success, this approach is becoming ever more popular and dominating over the slower sequential product development method. Fast changes in technology, forced design cycle time reduction, emergence of new information technology and methodologies, as well as other aspects such as organisational and behavioural basis caused the sequential design process to progress into a concurrent engineering approach. The basic concept behind the concurrent engineering approach is that all parts of the design, manufacture, production, management, finance, and marketing of the product are usually involved in the early stages of a product’s design cycle, enabling faster product development through extensive use of simulation. Its key approach is to get the right data for the right person at the right time. There are forces that govern changes in the product development, and these forces must be steered towards prompt response to competition and higher productivity in order for companies to exist and successfully expand in the global market place. Concurrent engineering is made up of four key dimensions, one of them the communication infrastructure dimension, which is the focus of this study. This study defines the information infrastructure dimension, and some of the tools and technologies that support communication and collaboration. It then discusses how to employ the concurrent engineering approach from a communication infrastructure dimension point of view, starting with assessing the current product development process and eventually envisioning the path to take to a successful concurrent engineering environment. Communication infrastructure technologies and tools can be seen as central to a company’s implementation of concurrent engineering, as shown in the case studies covered in this work.

Thesis (M.B.A.) - Carleton University, 2005. / Includes bibliographical references (p. 194-203). Also available in electronic format on the Internet.

O processo de desenvolvimento do produto (PDP) tem assumido uma importância crescente na indústria devido ao aumento da complexidade de produtos e processos de produção, bem como às pressões para o atendimento dos requisitos do cliente em prazos cada vez menores. A Engenharia Simultânea (ES) é uma abordagem que surgiu em resposta a estas mudanças. Foi inicialmente desenvolvida na indústria na manufatura, a partir da organização simultânea de diferentes funções envolvidas no desenvolvimento de novos produtos. A aplicação da engenharia simultânea na construção civil tem sido estudada por acadêmicos, principalmente em empreendimentos que possuem grande incerteza e elevado grau de interdependência entre as atividades. Neste contexto, a falta de integração entre projeto e produção e a ineficácia do planejamento e controle do processo de projeto têm sido apontadas como importantes lacunas de conhecimento. Apesar dos resultados promissores de alguns estudos que buscaram adaptar ferramentas de planejamento e controle da produção, existe a necessidade de investigar a implementação de algumas práticas essenciais que viabilizem a sobreposição entre projeto e produção, tais como a redução do tamanho dos lotes de informação e o seqüenciamento de atividades de projeto. O objetivo do presente trabalho consiste em propor diretrizes para a segmentação e seqüenciamento das atividades no processo de projeto em ambientes simultâneos na construção civil, envolvendo empreendimentos complexos, rápidos e com elevado grau de incerteza. O método de pesquisa envolveu a realização de três estudos de caso em empreendimentos de uma empresa construtora de Porto Alegre, atuante no mercado de edificações industriais, hospitalares e comerciais, nos quais os processos de projeto e produção são desenvolvidos em geral de forma simultânea. Entre outras conclusões o estudo indicou que a redução do tamanho dos lotes de projeto a serem desenvolvidos é influenciada pelo escopo de projetos contratados, assim como pela complexidade e o porte do edifício projetado. Outros fatores relevantes à redução do tamanho dos lotes são a capacidade de produção dos projetistas e a interdependência entre as diferentes disciplinas de projeto. Foi constatado que o seqüenciamento das atividades de projeto neste contexto é fortemente influenciado pelo planejamento da produção e que a antecipação na consideração de restrições legais e de requisitos do cliente, bem como a integração da equipe multidisciplinar de projeto ao longo do processo podem contribuir à redução de iterações desnecessárias em projeto. O trabalho apresentou como contribuições conceituais o melhor entendimento do processo de projeto com relação às interdependências em projeto, além do conhecimento de uma possível forma para a realização coordenação de projetos neste contexto. / The product development process (PDP) has recently grown in importance in many industries mostly due to the increasing product and process complexity, and to the growing pressures to respond quickly to client requirements. Concurrent Engineering (CE) is an approach that has emerged as a response to those changes. It was originally developed in manufacturing industries, based on the simultaneous organization of different functions involved in product development. The application of CE in construction has been investigated by the research community, especially in projects in which there is high uncertainty and interdependence. In this context, the lack of integration between design and production processes and the ineffectiveness of design planning and control have been pointed as important knowledge gaps. Despite the promising results achieved by the adaptation of some production planning and control mechanisms to the design process, there is a need to investigate the implementation of some key practices to make it possible the integration of design and production planning process, such as the reduction of information batches and the sequencing of design activities. The aim of this research is to propose guidelines for the reduction of activities batch sizes and for sequencing design activities in concurrent environments, typical of complex, uncertain and fast construction projects. The research method involved three case studies, in different construction projects carried by the same company, based in Porto Alegre – RS, that builds industrial, commercial and heath-care buildings, in which design and production are usually developed simultaneously. This study indicated that the reduction of design batch sizes depends on the scope of the design, the complexity of the final product, the capacity of the design team, and the degree of interdependence among different design disciplines. Moreover, the sequencing of design activities in this context is strongly influenced by production planning, and the early consideration of legal constraints and client requirements, and the degree of the integration in the design team play very important roles in the reduction of unnecessary design iteration. Finally, the main conceptual contribution of this research work is concerned with understanding the design process with regards to the interdependence among different design disciplines and the knowledge for devising approaches to coordinate this process in such context.

O processo de desenvolvimento do produto (PDP) tem assumido uma importância crescente na indústria devido ao aumento da complexidade de produtos e processos de produção, bem como às pressões para o atendimento dos requisitos do cliente em prazos cada vez menores. A Engenharia Simultânea (ES) é uma abordagem que surgiu em resposta a estas mudanças. Foi inicialmente desenvolvida na indústria na manufatura, a partir da organização simultânea de diferentes funções envolvidas no desenvolvimento de novos produtos. A aplicação da engenharia simultânea na construção civil tem sido estudada por acadêmicos, principalmente em empreendimentos que possuem grande incerteza e elevado grau de interdependência entre as atividades. Neste contexto, a falta de integração entre projeto e produção e a ineficácia do planejamento e controle do processo de projeto têm sido apontadas como importantes lacunas de conhecimento. Apesar dos resultados promissores de alguns estudos que buscaram adaptar ferramentas de planejamento e controle da produção, existe a necessidade de investigar a implementação de algumas práticas essenciais que viabilizem a sobreposição entre projeto e produção, tais como a redução do tamanho dos lotes de informação e o seqüenciamento de atividades de projeto. O objetivo do presente trabalho consiste em propor diretrizes para a segmentação e seqüenciamento das atividades no processo de projeto em ambientes simultâneos na construção civil, envolvendo empreendimentos complexos, rápidos e com elevado grau de incerteza. O método de pesquisa envolveu a realização de três estudos de caso em empreendimentos de uma empresa construtora de Porto Alegre, atuante no mercado de edificações industriais, hospitalares e comerciais, nos quais os processos de projeto e produção são desenvolvidos em geral de forma simultânea. Entre outras conclusões o estudo indicou que a redução do tamanho dos lotes de projeto a serem desenvolvidos é influenciada pelo escopo de projetos contratados, assim como pela complexidade e o porte do edifício projetado. Outros fatores relevantes à redução do tamanho dos lotes são a capacidade de produção dos projetistas e a interdependência entre as diferentes disciplinas de projeto. Foi constatado que o seqüenciamento das atividades de projeto neste contexto é fortemente influenciado pelo planejamento da produção e que a antecipação na consideração de restrições legais e de requisitos do cliente, bem como a integração da equipe multidisciplinar de projeto ao longo do processo podem contribuir à redução de iterações desnecessárias em projeto. O trabalho apresentou como contribuições conceituais o melhor entendimento do processo de projeto com relação às interdependências em projeto, além do conhecimento de uma possível forma para a realização coordenação de projetos neste contexto. / The product development process (PDP) has recently grown in importance in many industries mostly due to the increasing product and process complexity, and to the growing pressures to respond quickly to client requirements. Concurrent Engineering (CE) is an approach that has emerged as a response to those changes. It was originally developed in manufacturing industries, based on the simultaneous organization of different functions involved in product development. The application of CE in construction has been investigated by the research community, especially in projects in which there is high uncertainty and interdependence. In this context, the lack of integration between design and production processes and the ineffectiveness of design planning and control have been pointed as important knowledge gaps. Despite the promising results achieved by the adaptation of some production planning and control mechanisms to the design process, there is a need to investigate the implementation of some key practices to make it possible the integration of design and production planning process, such as the reduction of information batches and the sequencing of design activities. The aim of this research is to propose guidelines for the reduction of activities batch sizes and for sequencing design activities in concurrent environments, typical of complex, uncertain and fast construction projects. The research method involved three case studies, in different construction projects carried by the same company, based in Porto Alegre – RS, that builds industrial, commercial and heath-care buildings, in which design and production are usually developed simultaneously. This study indicated that the reduction of design batch sizes depends on the scope of the design, the complexity of the final product, the capacity of the design team, and the degree of interdependence among different design disciplines. Moreover, the sequencing of design activities in this context is strongly influenced by production planning, and the early consideration of legal constraints and client requirements, and the degree of the integration in the design team play very important roles in the reduction of unnecessary design iteration. Finally, the main conceptual contribution of this research work is concerned with understanding the design process with regards to the interdependence among different design disciplines and the knowledge for devising approaches to coordinate this process in such context.

Submitted by Milena Rubi (milenarubi@ufscar.br) on 2016-09-28T14:22:11Z No. of bitstreams: 1 VIEIRA_Antonio_2016.pdf: 1886204 bytes, checksum: efac2c7ffd0182c1ed800453f19509a0 (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Milena Rubi (milenarubi@ufscar.br) on 2016-09-28T14:22:35Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 VIEIRA_Antonio_2016.pdf: 1886204 bytes, checksum: efac2c7ffd0182c1ed800453f19509a0 (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Milena Rubi (milenarubi@ufscar.br) on 2016-09-28T14:22:59Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 VIEIRA_Antonio_2016.pdf: 1886204 bytes, checksum: efac2c7ffd0182c1ed800453f19509a0 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2016-09-28T14:23:21Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 VIEIRA_Antonio_2016.pdf: 1886204 bytes, checksum: efac2c7ffd0182c1ed800453f19509a0 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2016-04-30 / Não recebi financiamento / This work, an action research, was conducted in a multinational Germany company, manufacturer of industrial gearboxes, and aimed to compare the differences between the product development process model (PDP) above and the PDP model proposed in this research, from the design of a series consisting of thirteen sizes of modular planetary gearboxes. This research is justified from the need for constant deployment tools that help to minimize costs and maximize productivity results in organizations, using as an example, the modular planetary gearbox due to its high and demand and market potential. Among the benefits found on the basis of the adopted model exchange are setting up the project teams (creation of cross-functional team), parallelism of activities (project developed and validated by a team), a better way to integrate the project's clients (meetings brainstorming and feedback) as well as the possibility to use in support of product development tools (DFMA - Design for Manufacturing and Assembly, DFM – Design for Manufacturability, among others). In addition, the practice of the new model was possible to give emphasis to consumer preferences, always considering the quality, cost and development time to market The main result, we obtained the implementation of an integrated PDP model and simultaneously with development time gain and manufacturing (70% reduction in rework elaborate designs to manufacturing and 50% of new projects development time), reducing equipment costs by 7.5% compared to the equipment developed sequentially. Through this implementation, it was still possible to draw up a catalog of modular planetary gearboxes, translated into 5 languages and distributed in more than 13 countries in Europe, Asia and America. The catalog also provided to the sellers a faster response to customers and the release of the product worldwide. / Este trabalho, uma pesquisa-ação, foi realizado em uma empresa multinacional de origem alemã, fabricante de redutores de velocidade industriais, e teve como objetivo principal comparar as diferenças entre o modelo de processo de desenvolvimento de produtos (PDP) anterior e o modelo de PDP proposto durante a realização desta pesquisa, a partir do projeto de uma série composta por treze tamanhos de redutores planetários modulares. Esta pesquisa se justificou a partir necessidade de implementação constante de ferramentas que auxiliem a minimizar os custos e maximizar os resultados de produtividade nas organizações, utilizando-se como exemplo, os redutores de velocidade planetários modulares devido à sua alta e demanda e potencial de mercado. Entre os benefícios encontrados em função da troca de modelo adotado estão a configuração das equipes de projeto (criação da equipe multifuncional), o paralelismo das atividades (projeto desenvolvido e validado por uma equipe), uma melhor forma de integrar os clientes do projeto (reuniões de brainstorm e de feedback), assim como a possibilidade de utilizar ferramentas de apoio ao desenvolvimento de produtos (DFMA - Design for Manufaturing and Assembly, DFM – Design for Manufacturability, entre outras). Além disso, com a prática do modelo novo foi possível dar ênfase às preferências dos consumidores, sempre considerando a qualidade, custo e tempo no desenvolvimento para o mercado. Como principal resultado, obteve-se a implantação de um modelo de PDP integrado e simultâneo com ganho de tempo de desenvolvimento e de manufatura (redução de 70% nos retrabalhos de desenhos elaborados para a manufatura e de 50% do tempo de desenvolvimento de novos projetos), reduzindo os custos do equipamento em 7,5% se comparado ao equipamento desenvolvido de maneira sequencial. Através dessa implementação foi possível ainda a elaboração de um catálogo de redutores planetários modulares, traduzido em 5 idiomas e distribuído em mais de 13 países da Europa, Ásia e América. O catálogo também propiciou aos vendedores uma resposta mais rápida para os clientes e a divulgação do produto em todo o mundo.

En conception distribuée, dans la phase du dimensionnement du produit, des incohérences peuvent émerger entre les objectifs de conception et entre les procédures de travail des sous-systèmes hétérogènes. Dans cette phase, les acteurs de conception doivent collaborer d’une manière concourante, car leurs tâches sont reliées les unes aux autres par les couplages de dimensionnement entre leurs sous-problèmes. Les incohérences peuvent provoquer des conflits de conception en raison de ces couplages. La question est de savoir comment obtenir une convergence collaborative pour satisfaire les objectifs globaux et individuels des acteurs de conception lorsque ces acteurs prennent des décisions de conception sous incertitude. L'objectif de cette thèse est de proposer un modèle pour empêcher et résoudre les conflits de conception, tout en surmontant le problème de l'incertitude de la conception avec l'approche de « conception basée sur les ensembles » (SBD). Pour cela, les attitudes de conception sont modélisées avec le paradigme « Croyances-Désirs-Intentions » afin d'explorer les incohérences et gérer les conflits dans les processus de conception. L'approche ascendante conventionnelle est ainsi étendue grâce à des techniques de modélisation multi-agents. Dans cette approche, les agents de conception peuvent fixer des exigences directement sur leurs indicateurs de « bien-être ». Ces indicateurs représentent la manière dont leurs objectifs de conception sont susceptibles d'être satisfaits à un moment donné du processus. Des simulations de Monte Carlo sont effectuées pour évaluer la performance de cette approche, offrant une variété d'attitudes de l'agent. Par rapport aux approches classiques de conception ascendante et descendante, les résultats révèlent moins de conflits de conception et une intensité des conflits réduite. Les techniques de « problème de satisfaction de contraintes » (CSP) et les attitudes de conception sont appliquées pour détecter et justifier des conflits de conception entre les agents hétérogènes. Une nouvelle forme du modèle « Cooperative CSP » (CoCSP) est ainsi mise au point afin de résoudre les conflits de conception en détectant le compromis entre les contraintes. Le système de résolution des conflits peut être adopté grâce à différentes stratégies proposées qui prennent en compte l'architecture de solidarité des agents. Les résultats des simulations montrent que l'intensité des conflits en conception distribuée est réduite par la promotion de la solidarité qui déclenche une aide aux agents en souffrance. / In the product dimensioning phase of a distributed design, inconsistencies can emerge among design objectives as well as among working procedures of heterogeneous subsystems. In this phase, design actors which compose subsystems must collaborate concurrently, since their works are linked to each other through dimensioning couplings among their sub-problems. Inconsistencies through these couplings yield thus to design conflicts. The issue is how to obtain a collaborative convergence to satisfy the global and individual objectives of design actors when making design decisions under uncertainty. The objective of this dissertation is to propose a model for preventing and resolving design conflicts in order to obtain a collaborative convergence, while overcoming the design uncertainty through Set-based Design (SBD). Design attitudes are modeled with Belief-Desire-Intention paradigm to explore inconsistencies and manage conflicts in design processes. The conventional bottom-up approach is thus extended through agent-based attitude modeling techniques. In this approach, design agents can set requirements directly on their wellbeing values that represent how their design targets are likely to be met at a given moment of the design process. Monte Carlo simulations are performed to evaluate the performance of this approach, providing a variety of agent attitudes. Compared to conventional bottom-up and top-down design approaches, the results reveal a fewer number of design conflicts and a reduced aggregated conflict intensity. Constraint satisfaction problem (CSP) techniques and design attitudes are both applied to detect and justify design conflicts of heterogeneous design agents. A novel cooperative CSP (CoCSP) is developed in order to resolve design conflicts through compromising constraint restriction. The conflict resolution system can be adopted for different proposed strategies which take into account the solidarity architecture of design agents. The simulation results show that while promoting solidarity in distributed design by helping agents that suffer, the conflict intensity is reduced, and better design results are obtained.

O processo de desenvolvimento do produto (PDP) tem assumido uma importância crescente na indústria devido ao aumento da complexidade de produtos e processos de produção, bem como às pressões para o atendimento dos requisitos do cliente em prazos cada vez menores. A Engenharia Simultânea (ES) é uma abordagem que surgiu em resposta a estas mudanças. Foi inicialmente desenvolvida na indústria na manufatura, a partir da organização simultânea de diferentes funções envolvidas no desenvolvimento de novos produtos. A aplicação da engenharia simultânea na construção civil tem sido estudada por acadêmicos, principalmente em empreendimentos que possuem grande incerteza e elevado grau de interdependência entre as atividades. Neste contexto, a falta de integração entre projeto e produção e a ineficácia do planejamento e controle do processo de projeto têm sido apontadas como importantes lacunas de conhecimento. Apesar dos resultados promissores de alguns estudos que buscaram adaptar ferramentas de planejamento e controle da produção, existe a necessidade de investigar a implementação de algumas práticas essenciais que viabilizem a sobreposição entre projeto e produção, tais como a redução do tamanho dos lotes de informação e o seqüenciamento de atividades de projeto. O objetivo do presente trabalho consiste em propor diretrizes para a segmentação e seqüenciamento das atividades no processo de projeto em ambientes simultâneos na construção civil, envolvendo empreendimentos complexos, rápidos e com elevado grau de incerteza. O método de pesquisa envolveu a realização de três estudos de caso em empreendimentos de uma empresa construtora de Porto Alegre, atuante no mercado de edificações industriais, hospitalares e comerciais, nos quais os processos de projeto e produção são desenvolvidos em geral de forma simultânea. Entre outras conclusões o estudo indicou que a redução do tamanho dos lotes de projeto a serem desenvolvidos é influenciada pelo escopo de projetos contratados, assim como pela complexidade e o porte do edifício projetado. Outros fatores relevantes à redução do tamanho dos lotes são a capacidade de produção dos projetistas e a interdependência entre as diferentes disciplinas de projeto. Foi constatado que o seqüenciamento das atividades de projeto neste contexto é fortemente influenciado pelo planejamento da produção e que a antecipação na consideração de restrições legais e de requisitos do cliente, bem como a integração da equipe multidisciplinar de projeto ao longo do processo podem contribuir à redução de iterações desnecessárias em projeto. O trabalho apresentou como contribuições conceituais o melhor entendimento do processo de projeto com relação às interdependências em projeto, além do conhecimento de uma possível forma para a realização coordenação de projetos neste contexto. / The product development process (PDP) has recently grown in importance in many industries mostly due to the increasing product and process complexity, and to the growing pressures to respond quickly to client requirements. Concurrent Engineering (CE) is an approach that has emerged as a response to those changes. It was originally developed in manufacturing industries, based on the simultaneous organization of different functions involved in product development. The application of CE in construction has been investigated by the research community, especially in projects in which there is high uncertainty and interdependence. In this context, the lack of integration between design and production processes and the ineffectiveness of design planning and control have been pointed as important knowledge gaps. Despite the promising results achieved by the adaptation of some production planning and control mechanisms to the design process, there is a need to investigate the implementation of some key practices to make it possible the integration of design and production planning process, such as the reduction of information batches and the sequencing of design activities. The aim of this research is to propose guidelines for the reduction of activities batch sizes and for sequencing design activities in concurrent environments, typical of complex, uncertain and fast construction projects. The research method involved three case studies, in different construction projects carried by the same company, based in Porto Alegre – RS, that builds industrial, commercial and heath-care buildings, in which design and production are usually developed simultaneously. This study indicated that the reduction of design batch sizes depends on the scope of the design, the complexity of the final product, the capacity of the design team, and the degree of interdependence among different design disciplines. Moreover, the sequencing of design activities in this context is strongly influenced by production planning, and the early consideration of legal constraints and client requirements, and the degree of the integration in the design team play very important roles in the reduction of unnecessary design iteration. Finally, the main conceptual contribution of this research work is concerned with understanding the design process with regards to the interdependence among different design disciplines and the knowledge for devising approaches to coordinate this process in such context.

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