Concurrent engineering requires the cooperation of people coming from different phases of the engineering process. Traceability between the different views (products), which exist in such cross-functional teams, is essential for enabling mutual understanding. Moreover, the different views must be related to each other and must be presented in a suitable way to support finding and resolving of inconsistencies, conflicts, and different opportunities. We have developed and implemented a concurrent engineering environment, called PRO-ART, which is based on four main ideas:
• record, use, and maintain the various products using formal product models;
• capture the relationships between the products detected during process performance;
• present the relations based on the ideas of the House of Quality (Co Decide);
• provide a computer based environment, which hides the formal models and automates the recording of products and their interrelations.
The recording and situated retrieval of the information is enabled by a deductive and object oriented repository.
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