Management of the design process: Human resource evaluation in factories of the future

Abstract

The concurrent engineering design depends on the efficiency of communication between the actors in the design process, such as how effective communication between engineers and teams will have a direct effect on the design efficiency. Currently, the relationships among different actors in the project are shaped by many new challenges such as multiplication of data and information, mass customization, global collaboration, ageing societies, increasing urbanization, scarcity of resources, dynamic technology and innovation. When managers consider these factors, human resource evaluation becomes much more complex to grasp. In order to cope with adaption of product–process–organization model for industry of the future, it is necessary to have a methodology to approach the problem of human resource evaluation in the future organization structure.