Business Process Re-engineering (BPR) is considered by many to have ‘had its day’ with scholars such as Hansen (Foster, 1994) stating that BPR is a misnomenor, and goes onto conclude that re-engineering does not exist because business systems were never engineered in the first place, they simply developed. Yet, others such as Hales and Savoie, (1994) and Irani et al., (1997) argue that BPR is a...

The process industries (chemicals, food, oil, ...) are characterized by continuous or batch -processes of material transformation. The design of such processes, and their mapping to the available equipment (plants composed of production units in which reactions take place), is a complex process that determines the competitiveness of these industries, as well as their environmental impact. In co...

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In this paper, we propose a fundamental idea of a new CAD architecture to facilitate design knowledge management. This architecture is useful to develop an advanced design support system that encourages a designer to externalize his/her knowledge during a design process and facilitates sharing and reuse of such externalized design knowledge in later stages. We also describe an implementation of...

SUKITS is a joint project of computer scientists and mechanical engineers which is devoted to the design and implementation of an integrated infrastructure for product development. This infrastructure – the CIM Manager – provides a framework for a posteriori integration of heterogeneous application systems. This paper describes management of engineering products and processes. Product managemen...

Design engineers prefer to have multiple performing solutions, rather than a single optimum. This set of design alternatives gives desired flexibility to engineers. The motivation of current research effort stems from the question that “Can the design process be reversed?” Every design endeavor has a specific set of stringent performance requirements to meet. So, if we “reverse” the classical d...

Web applications present important characteristics that must be properly addressed by software engineering methods, processes and techniques. In most cases, Web systems have to be delivered complying with severe time constraints due to its strategic nature for the client’s business. In this work we describe an agile process for Web-based application development, XWebProcess, which is based on E...