One Organization Issues in Concurrent Engineering. - 1. Principles of concurrent engineering. - 2. Concurrent engineering's roots in the World War II era. - 3. Implementation: common failure modes and success factors. - 4. Overcoming barriers to the implementation of concurrent engineering. - 5. Improving interpersonal communications on multifunctional teams. - 6. Scheduling of concurrent manufacturing projects. - Two Tools and Techniques of Concurrent Engineering. - 7. Models of design processes. - 8. A decision-based approach to concurrent design. - 9. Concurrent optimization of product design and manufacture. - 10. Computer-based concurrent engineering systems. - 11. Multiattribute design optimization and concurrent engineering. - 12. Concurrent cell design and cell control system configuration. - 13. A generalized methodology for evaluating manufacturability. - 14. Evaluating product machinability for concurrent engineering. - 15. Concurrent optimization of design and manufacturing tolerances. - 16. Design for human factors. - Three Cost Considerations in Concurrent Engineering. - 17. Designing to cost. - 18. Economic design in concurrent engineering. - Four Artificial Intelligence in Concurrent Engineering. - 19. Application of expert systems to engineering design. - 20. A knowledge-based approach to design for manufacture using features. - 21. Concurrent accumulation of knowledge: a view of concurrent engineering. - 22. Integrated knowledge systems for adaptive concurrent design. - 23. Automating design for manufacturability through expert systems approaches. - 24. Modeling the design process with Petri nets. - 25. Neuro-computing and concurrent engineering. Language: English