CALL FOR PANEL AND TUTORIAL PROPOSALS THE INDUSTRY FOCUS IN CE95
SECOND INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON CONCURRENT ENGINEERING: RESEARCH AND APPLICATIONS Washington, DC Area August 23-25, 1995
CE95, Concurrent Engineering: Research and Applications, is a major forum for the international scientific exchange and presentation of multi-disciplinary and inter-organizational aspects of concurrent engineering (CE). The focus is on the use of integrated enterprise processes, collaborative work, information sharing, co-locating resources, and integrated frameworks and tools.
Panels and tutorials are solicited to alert industry and government attendees to the potential of emerging CE technologies and to provide a forum for sharing lessons learned in successful enterprise-wide concurrent engineering projects. The intent is to accelerate high-impact applications of CE technology in industry or government and to steer CE research towards applications in which such impact can be achieved.
CE95 is sponsored by Concurrent Technologies Corporation, GE Corporate Research and Development, the International Society for Productivity Enhancement, and the CERA Journal. It is hosted by Concurrent Technologies Corporation, Johnstown, PA, USA.
Topics of Interest:
Submissions are invited for tutorials and panels which connect emerging CE technologies with successful applications in industry and government. Proposals are solicited for
* CE Case Studies: Successful application of concurrent engineering to major product development activities, lessons learned, technology transition, organizational approaches, barriers, team training.
* Enterprise integration: Assessing an organization's readiness, CE assessment models, integrated process capture, re- engineering enterprise processes, CE metrics, barriers to CE, agile manufacturing, virtual enterprises.
* Cooperative work: Team coordination, common visibility of activities and data, monitoring progress of product development, change notification across perspectives, conflict resolution techniques, constraints management, planning and scheduling of activities, workflow, cooperative problem solving, computer support for team structure.
* Information sharing: Information modeling and simulation, data version control and management, PDES/STEP, multi-level user access, capturing corporate history, enterprise multimedia notebooks, design rationale, integrated database and knowledgebase management systems.
* Communication tools: Computer-based video and audio conferring and consulting, multimedia electronic mail, network- wide sharing of tools, graphical collaborative user interfaces for inter-operability.
* Integrated frameworks and tools: Architectures for building concurrent engineering systems, integration of tools, integration of design and manufacturing, knowledge-based integration.
* Life cycle engineering: Design for X, integrated product and process development, environmentally conscious design and manufacturing, life-cycle cost and quality.
Timetable:
* Authors should submit a one page proposal to the panel co-chair by January 15, 1995 (preferably by E-mail in plain ASCII or PostScript). Submissions received after that date will be returned unopened.
* Notification of acceptance or rejection will be mailed to the first author (or designated author) on or before February 28, 1995.
* Draft overheads and handouts must be received by April 15, 1995. Details of the format will be sent later.
* Final overheads and handouts must be received by July 15, 1995.
A current version of a CE95 call for papers, panels and tutorials is available at:
http://ce-toolkit.crd.ge.com/ce/
and information about CE94 and the proceedings is also available at the above URL. ------------------------------------------------------------------ Reply to:
Program Co-Chair (Panels and Tutorials) John W. Lewis GE Corporate Research and Development PO Box 8, Bldg KW, Rm C277 Schenectady, NY 12301 E-mail: lewisjw@crd.ge.com Telephone: (518) 387-5072, Fax: (518) 387-7080
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