Objective The growth in world trade has resulted in enterprises that are increasingly moving towards global manufacturing where parts are manufactured and assembled in a number of countries. The effective coordination between various manufacturing facilities is crucial for international competitiveness. This project addresses the Concurrent Engineering Design of products so that they can be manufactured in several countries with optimum coordination that results in highly efficient production and logistics. Organisations from Canada, Europe and the US participated in a one year study of Global Concurrent Engineering to find the best practices and to design the architecture as well as investigating the major constraints on global manufacturing and the extent to which Concurrent Engineering can overcome the impediments. The goal was to achieve rapid product realisation through customer-driven designs and through agile manufacturing. The project was industry-led with a strong contribution from universities and involved large, medium and small companies. The contributions of companies from the different regions addressed the life-cycle of products from research, design and prototyping, through commercial deployment. The following technical themes were addressed: Enterprise IntegrationModellingSystems Architecture Global ManufacturingConcurrent EngineeringOrganisation and economic aspects Human and Organisational AspectsHuman Oriented Production SystemsInternal and External Team Working Fields of science natural sciencescomputer and information sciencessoftwaresoftware applicationssimulation software Programme(s) FP3-ESPRIT 3 - Specific research and technological development programme (EEC) in the field of information technologies, 1990-1994 Topic(s) Data not available Call for proposal Data not available Funding Scheme Data not available Coordinator Transfer Technology Ltd Address 40 coleshill industrial estate coleshill B46 1JT Birmingham United Kingdom See on map EU contribution € 0,00 Participants (2) Sort alphabetically Sort by EU Contribution Expand all Collapse all DE MONTFORT UNIVERSITY United Kingdom EU contribution € 0,00 Address The gateway Leicester See on map Links Website Opens in new window Syntax Factory Automation SpA Italy EU contribution € 0,00 Address Via vincenzo vela 27 10129 Torino See on map
