What is Concurrent Engineering?

Concurrent Engineering aims to optimize construction processes, reduce lead times, decrease costs and improve project quality.

Concurrent Engineering is a business strategy where asset development timescales are minimised by maximising the degree of overlap of design, construction, completion and commissioning activities.

Enterprise Engineer for Assets supports the concurrent engineering methodology by allowing more than one project to work concurrently on the same drawing or document and ensuring visibility of process.

Business Challenges:

  • Gaining visibility of who has what drawing
  • Ensuring everyone is working with the most up-to-date version
  • Complexity of managing multiple projects working with the same information
  • Processes spanning internal and external participants
  • Reconciliation / Repatriation process

Enterprise Engineer features supporting Concurrent Engineering:

  • Reports provide visibility of projects working concurrently
  • Notifications ensure projects are aware of a concurrent engineering situations
  • Transparency of process for Operations, Engineering Projects and Service Providers
  • Project security model allows multiple stakeholders to have visibility, while keeping information undergoing change secure
  • Secure access to libraries of as-built drawings and documents
  • Formal process to "retrieve" or "sign out" as-built drawings for revision or for information to multiple projects
  • Transmittal process to send as-built drawings and documents to external engineering projects (e.g. EPCs)
  • Management of incoming drawings and documents and updated revisions
  • Formal process to manage handover from both internal and external projects
  • Reconciliation/Repatriation process to manage concurrent project updates
  • Comparison tools to compare concurrent project revisions
  • Comparison tools to compare projects revisions to currently effective drawings (as-builts)

Benefits of Concurrent Engineering

  • Shorter development timescale
  • Lower costs of rework
  • Less fragmented teams
  • Reduction / elimination of non value adding activities
  • Design and analysis can happen at the same time
  • Construction in progress before design completion