Abstract
The paper investigates how a pragmatics-based approach may influence Concurrent Engineering (CE) implementation projects. Pragmatics, a field of semiotics, is used as a perspective for analyzing, as an instrument for constructing manufacturing systems and, in this particular research, as an instrument for CE implementation projects. In particular, as a part of the CE implementation methodology, modeling and the effects of different interpretations (as pragmatics aspects) of the assessment of processes’ simultaneity in a manufacturing organization are studied. The underlying thesis is that different interpretations significantly influence the perception of the organization’s reality, which has an impact on the project’s success. As a representation class, the so-called Simultaneity (Concurrency) Matrix (SCM) was used for simultaneity process assessment. The thesis is validated in two manufacturing companies. The results suggest that further improvements of the CE implementation methodologies, when using the pragmatics-based approach, lead to better quality of decisions and provide some assurance for the success of short-time and low-cost CE implementation projects.
Highlights
This paper investigates how a pragmatics-based approach may influence Concurrent Engineering (CE) implementation projects
In the research presented in this paper, pragmatics is used as a perspective for analyzing and constructing manufacturing systems: CE implementation projects
Application of Pragmatics-Based Approach will be demonstrated through creation of ‘Interpreted Simultaneity (Concurrency) Matrix (SCM)’, for process simultaneity assessment, in three phases of the Concurrent Engineering implementation methodology
Summary
This paper investigates how a pragmatics-based approach may influence Concurrent Engineering (CE) implementation projects. In order to assure the best decisions for the case under consideration, an improved methodology for CE implementation strategy (including the CE Readiness Assessment (CERA)), should include multiple interpretations, i.e. should apply the pragmatics-based approach. We promote non-technological approaches, such as a pragmatics-(i.e. semiotics)based approach to CE implementation strategy; iv) This paper provides validation of the pragmaticsbased approach to CE implementation methodology, with respect to simultaneity of processes. The primary objective of the paper is to investigate the influence of a pragmaticsbased approach on CE implementation projects and evaluation of process simultaneity, as one of the main features of a CE implementation strategy and a CE readiness assessment. This section represents a validation of the thesis on the influence of pragmatics-based approaches on the CE implementation project, and of the evaluation of the simultaneity of processes, as well as on the identification of intervention areas for CE implementation.
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