Click Here to Download: https://ouo.io/bntQ6AO New World Situation: New Directions in Concurrent Engineering Proceedings of the 17th ISPE International Conference on Concurrent Engineering Publisher: Springer Print ISBN: 9780857290236, 0857290231 eText ISBN: 9780857290243, 085729024X Copyright year: 2010 Format: EPUB Available from $ 389.00 USD SKU 9780857290243 The proceedings contain papers accepted for the 17th ISPE International Conference on Concurrent Engineering, which was held in Cracow, Poland, September 6-10, 2010. Concurrent Engineering (CE) has a history of over twenty years. At first, primary focus was on bringing downstream information as much upstream as possible, by introducing parallel processing of processes, in order to prevent errors at the later stage which would sometimes cause irrevocable damage and to reduce time to market. During the period of more than twenty years, numerous new concepts, methodologies and tools have been developed. During this period the background for engineering/manufacturing has changed extensively. Now, industry has to work with global markets. The globalization brought forth a new network of experts and companies across many different domains and fields in distributed environments. These collaborations integrated with very high level of profesionalism and specialisation, provided the basis for innovations in design and manufacturing and succeeded in creating new products on a global market.