DARPA Concurrent Design/Concurrent Engineering Workshop Held in Key West, Florida on December 6-8, 1988.

摘要

Two themes emerged at last year's workshop that were reinforced this year. These are short-term and long-term approaches to CD/CE. DoD efforts in CD/CE are mainly directed at the short-term approach, while DARPA is pursuing the long-term. DoD representatives feel that CD/CE is the way to focus and implement the department's Total Quality Management objective. The short term issue is to implement the team approach to product development as fast as possible without waiting for any new technology. Such technology is not really needed for immediate implementation of teams; instead, the main barriers are institutional: work habits and methods, procurement policies and contracting methods, management attitudes. It is likely that companies that do not adopt teams will be left behind by those that do. Note that calling it 'short-term' does not mean that it can always be implemented quickly. The long term approach is based on improving the team approach through research that gives teams better tools with which to communicate, to resolve design issues, and to predict design effects. A major purpose of the workshop was to provide feedback to DARPA on the research needs and to suggest a structure for diverse research topics. The panels were: Features as knowledge representation, User interface, CD methodology/partitioning, Theory of geometry/tolerance representation, Interface standards, Intelligent database design and network support, and CD architecture capability/technology needs. (jhd)