Concurrent Engineering and the Dynaxity Approach. How to Benefit from Multidisciplinarity

  • Authors:

  • Tom Tiltmann;Uschi Rick;Klaus Henning

  • Affiliations:

  • Center for Learning and Knowledge Management and Department of Computer Science in Mechanical Engineering (ZLW/IMA), RWTH Aachen University, Germany;Center for Learning and Knowledge Management and Department of Computer Science in Mechanical Engineering (ZLW/IMA), RWTH Aachen University, Germany;Center for Learning and Knowledge Management and Department of Computer Science in Mechanical Engineering (ZLW/IMA), RWTH Aachen University, Germany

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 2006 conference on Leading the Web in Concurrent Engineering: Next Generation Concurrent Engineering
  • Year:
  • 2006

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Abstract

Some authors (i.e. [1]) claim for an appropriate organisational realisation of concurrent engineering. As the pressure to realise and maintain competitiveness in turbulent environments grows, organisations need processes and methods to deal with this challenging situation. This paper will examine the complexity in today's software development processes and present ways to cope with it. For that purpose, approaches of different disciplines are presented: concurrent engineering, multidisciplinarity and the dynaxity approach that categorises the behaviour of organisations into four zones. An approach will then be proposed that combines these three elements. It will be revealed by the example of a network project KONVOI in order to prove that this approach succeeds in turbulent environments.