Concurrent Engineering/Additional Resources

European Space Agency Concurrent Design Facility or CDF,submitted by Peter Burke.

• This is a fine example of a dozen engineers simultaneously working on the same computer model of a space hardware systems.
• http://esamultimedia.esa.int/docs/CDF%20INFOPACK%20PRESENTATION%202008.pdf

Comments on how experts think differently from non-experts, submitted by Peter Burke.

• This is relevant to concurrent engineering teams consisting of different kinds of experts who may not realize that their own intuitive thought processes are not understood by other team members.
• http://www.thefreelibrary.com/Seeing+through+expert+eyes%3a+ace+decision+makers+may+perceive...-a021003401

"Managing Your Team",submitted by Joseph Lutnesky

• This is a good report on how to manage a team in industry today. There are many good points that were brought up in making a team successful.
• http://www.informit.com/content/images/9780131870369/samplechapter/013187036X_Sample.pdf

"Team Building and Teamwork", submitted by Joseph Lutnesky

• I found this website to have very good information on team building and teamwork. There were many good points and I thought it would be a great source to contribute to our book.
• http://www.1000ventures.com/business_guide/crosscuttings/team_main.html

Anderson, David, "Design for Manufacturability & Concurrent Engineering", ISBN 1878072234

Moore, Geoffrey A., "Crossing the Chasm" submitted by Peter Burke

• The needs for concurrent engineering vary, depending on where a product is in its life cycle.

MEEP - Concurrent engineering course materials from "The Manufacturing Engineering Education Partnership" Penn State, U. Puerto Rico, U. Washington, and Sandia

• http://www.mne.psu.edu/lamancusa/html/ConcEng.htm

Kepner-Tregoe - Charles. H. Kepner & Benjamin B. Tregoe "The New Rational Manager" Princeton Research Press, Princeton, New Jersey, submitted by Peter Burke

• http://www.kepner-tregoe.com/
• Kepner-Tregoe, Inc. is a 50-year old company specializing in consulting and training directed toward solving a wide variety of problems, using a rational, analytical approach. Their book is a useful tutorial, dividing thought processes into four basic questions and presenting tools to help answer each question.
  • What is going on? (Situation Analysis, page 169)
  • Why did this happen? (Problem Analysis, page 26)
  • What course of action should we take? (Decision Analysis, page 85)
  • What lies ahead? (Potential Problem (Opportunity) Analysis, page 165)
• I went through a KT training session years ago and two concepts, IS/IS NOT and MUST/WANT, are permanently and usefully embedded in my thinking:
  • IS/IS NOT – Look at both sides of a situation. Think about what is not going wrong as well as what is.
  • MUST/WANT – prioritize the desired outcomes of a decision or program into those you must have and those you want but can probably do without.
• If you like trouble-shooting and travel, KT might be a good outfit to work for.