ECEC 2007, April 23-25, 2007, TU Delft, Delft, The Netherlands, Conference Themes

Conference Themes

The 14th Annual European Concurrent Engineering Conference 2007 is structured around the following ten major topics: (To submit a paper click on the links below)

1 E-Business in CE
1.1 Organizational influences of e-business
1.2 B2B business models for inter-organizational CE
1.3 Migration to e-business based CE
1.4 E-business applications for CE
1.5 B2B portals for CE
1.6 Emerging standards (e.g. XML, UML)
1.7 E-Procurement, E-Supply, E-Engineering, ....

2 Organisation and management
2.1 Principles of CE
2.2 Multi-disciplined team-working and project team organisation
2.3 Global product development and international collaboration
2.4 Life-cycle cost and quality
2.5 Business process re-engineering and outsourcing
2.6 Supply chain management
2.7 Measurement of profitability by the introduction of CE

3 Supporting technologies
3.1 Digital mock-up
3.2 Virtual prototyping
3.3 Rapid prototyping
3.4 Synthetic environments and simulation on the factory floor
3.5 Reverse engineering
3.6 Assembly and disassembly
3.7 High precision manufacturing
3.8 Intelligent Manufacturing
3.8 Sensor and robot assisted machining

4.Formal Methods and Techniques
4.1 Quality Function Deployment
4.2 Total Quality Management
4.3 Global Optimization Techniques and Hybrid Approaches

5.Engineering of Embedded Systems
5.1 HW/SW C-Design
5.2 System Development Process
5.3 Specification Languages

6 Engineering data management and information modeling
6.1 Integration of geometrical data and product definition
6.2 Product data interchange (PDI) and standards
6.3 Data handling, distribution and transformation
6.4 Data version control and management
6.5 Corporate technical memory
6.6 Design rationale and intent

7 Engineering Process Management and Modelling
7.1 Process planning in continuous, discrete and hybrid processes
7.2 Process modeling, monitoring and control
7.3 Diagnostics and maintenance
7.4 Automated inspection and quality control
7.5 Production planning, scheduling and control
7.6 CE metrics
7.7 CE process planning, scheduling and simulation
7.8 Workflow-management in CE
7.9 Project and team coordination

8 Collaborative CE environments for virtual teams
8.1 Cooperative problem solving
8.2 CSCW methods and tools
8.3 Information and application sharing
8.4 Computer-based video and audio conferencing and consulting
8.5 Conflict resolution techniques
8.6 Constraint management
8.7 Negotiation, blackboard and agent-based architecture
8.8 CORBA based environments and integrated frameworks
8.9 Architectures for building CE systems
8.10 CE languages and tools
8.11 Distributed computing environments
8.12 WWW based CE systems
8.13 Mobile CE systems
8.14 Networking and Distribution in CE

9 CE Enhanced Lean Manufacturing
9.1 Work Standardization
9.2 5S Workplace Organization
9.3 Visual Controls
9.4 Batch Size Reduction
9.5 Points of Use Storage
9.6 Quality at the Source
9.7 Workflow Practice
9.8 Improved Information and Product Flow
9.9 Cellular Manufacturing
9.10 Pull & Synchronous Scheduling
9.11 Six Sigma & Total Quality
9.12 Rapid Setup
9.13 Work Teams for Cell Management & Process Improvement
9.14 Simplified scheduling and Kanban inventory management

10 Practical applications and experiences
10.1 Practical solutions
10.2 Systematic guide-lines
10.3 Pitfalls and success stories
10.4 Case studies, pilot projects and experiments in aerospace, shipbuilding etc..