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The purpose of this paper is to give an in-depth insight for the development and improvement of concurrent engineering in several applications. In addition to that the conceptual model that includes the new application areas is developed and presented in simplified way so that the new practitioner in the field of concurrent engineering can understand easily. The methodology that is followed in this paper is review of concurrent engineering since the philosophy has started (80’s). The paper will start with historical background of CE, explains its general characteristics, different types of processes execution while doing overlapping and parallelism. Another area that will be covered is CE in relationship with other improvement principles and philosophies (like…supply chain, BPR, TQM) and etc. The challenges of CE are presented in this article to give a glance for managerial decision making purposes. Different perspectives towards CE and application areas is presented in a way that reader can understand in simplified but with clear objective in the implementation of CE. From the findings, though there are some challenges, still there are untapped application areas (like services) that could exploit the benefits of CE if it is considered with cautions and analyzed in advance using system dynamics.
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Belay, A.M., Helo, P., Kasie, F.M. (2011). Concurrent Engineering Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow. In: Frey, D., Fukuda, S., Rock, G. (eds) Improving Complex Systems Today. Advanced Concurrent Engineering. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-85729-799-0_50
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