Conference Themes

The conference language is English.

Special student/university tutorials are organized on request.

Prospective authors are invited to submit their papers reporting original work in all areas of Concurrent Engineering. Submissions for regular sessions (lecture or poster) include, but not limited to, the following topics:

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