This workshop was sponsored by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), under contract No. MDA972-88-C-0047 for the DARPA Initiative in Concurrent Engineering (DICE).

First CERC Process Workshop

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FIRST CE PROCESS WORKSHOP
PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT PROCESS MODELING AND
CHARACTERIZATION

Table of Contents

INTRODUCTION............................................................................................................2
CERC PROCESS PROGRAM .......................................................................................4
Ralph Wood

PROCESS CAPTURE AND CHARACTERIZATION ...............................................4
Harsh Karandikar

PROCESS MODELING ..................................................................................................6
Baldev Singh
DESIGNING DESIGN PROCESSES FOR DECISION-BASED

CONCURRENT ENGINEERING....................................................................................7
Bert Bras
CONCURRENT ENGINEERING PROCESS MODELING AND

MEASUREMENT ............................................................................................................9
Bruce Palmer

GROUP DISCUSSION - DAY 1 .................................................................................11
PROCESS PLANNING - REPRESENTATION AND

INTEGRATION ..............................................................................................................12
Steven Ray
SOME THOUGHTS ON MEASURES/METRICS AND ANOTHER

LOOK AT THE DESIGN PROCESS............................................................................14
Michael Smith
PROCESS CAPTURE AND CHARACTERIZATION

[IDEFtoolsTM] ..............................................................................................................14
Allen Batteau
CONCURRENT ENGINEERING ENVIRONMENT: HOLLOW AIRFOIL

PILOT PROJECT ..........................................................................................................16
Kamar Singh

PROCESS IMPROVEMENT AND VALIDATION .....................................................21
Mike Lucas