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CONCURRENT ENGINEERING: Research and Applications (CERA) -- An International Journal
SPECIAL ISSUE on: Enterprise Management and Integration
Concurrent engineering is a systematic approach to the integrated, concurrent design of products and their processes, including manufacture and support. This approach leads developers, from the outset, to consider all the stages of the product life cycle, from conceptual through disposal, including quality, cost, schedule, and customer requirements. Early consideration of later phases of the life-cycle leads to no downstream problems. It also supports intelligent and informed decision-making throughout the process.
We will consider papers that discuss architectures for supporting virtual teams, decision-support tools, and design rationale as well as those that concentrate on more theoretical issues such as specifications of shared languages, constraint-based problem solving, and negotiation. Papers are requested on topics concerned enterprise management and integration. In particular, we are soliciting papers dealing with various aspects of enterprise integration such as assessing an organization's readiness, re- engineering enterprise processes, CE metrics, agile manufacturing, and virtual enterprise. Also, papers related to the following topics are welcome for the special issue:
-Modelling manufacturing resources, processes, and strategies to support concurrent engineering -Designing performance measurement systems for improving the application of the concurrent engineering process -Experience from implementing concurrent engineering systems in real life environments -The role of multimedia in enterprise management and integration -Decision support systems for integrating organizational decision making -Improving communication and decision making within quality function deployment
Manuscripts should be no more than 25 double-spaced pages in length including all figures and references. Papers must not have been previously published or be currently submitted for publication elsewhere. Initial abstracts and manuscripts should have a title page including the authors' full names, affiliations, physical and e-mail addresses. Papers must be double spaced, single-sided, on 8.5" x 11" paper, with 1" margins all around, in a 12 point font. Final manuscripts must meet the guidelines for the CERA Journal set forth by CERA Institute -- these appear inside the back cover of the journal. Papers will be reviewed by at least 3 reviewers. The following is the schedule for the special issue:
1 to 2 page abstract due before January 15, 1996
Five copies of full manuscript due February 15, 1996
Notification of acceptance March 15, 1996
Final version of manuscript due May 15, 1996
Send to publisher June 1, 1996
Special issue September 1996
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Please submit your manuscripts to one of the following co-editors:
Dr. A. Gunasekaran Professor M. Sarhadi School of Computing and Information Department of Manufacturing and Technology, Engineering Systems, Monash University Brunel University Churchill, Victoria 3842 Uxbridge, Middlesex UB8 3PH Australia United Kingdom
Phone: +61 51 22 6832 Phone: +44 1895 203 300 Fax: +61 51 22 6842 Fax: +44 1895 812 556 E-mail: guna@fcit.monash.edu.au E-mail: mansoor.sarhadi@brunel.ac.uk For Sample copy of CERA Journal send your request to Dr. Biren Prasad Managing Editor, CERA Journal P.O. Box 250254, West Bloomfield, MI 48325, USA Tel : (810) 696-5487: Fax (810) 661-8333; Email: <bprasad@cmsa.gmr.com>
BIREN PRASAD, PH.D. CONCURRENT ENGINEERING Phone Number: (810) 696-5487 Fax Number (810) 661-8333; Email: bprasad@cmsa.gmr.com cc: SMTP --AHIPC2S Guna in Australia BPRASA03--AHDNN1A Biren Prasad
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