ECEC 2009, April 15-17, 2009, Novotel, Bruges, Belgium, Conference Themes

Conference Themes

TO BE UPDATED

The 16th Annual European Concurrent Engineering Conference 2008 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..