Abstract
Due to the highly competitive commercial environment in the market in Yemen at present, the construction industry in Yemen, like other industries, is under pressure to reduce product development time and overall project costs, improve product quality, and satisfy customers. To keep pace with the competitive environment of the market in Yemen, most enterprises tend to adopt the best and new technologies, new management concepts and philosophies such as Total Quality Management (TQM) and concurrent engineering (CE) to achieve improvements in the process of product development. In this paper, the problem of fragmentation brought by the serial engineering in construction in Yemen is discussed firstly. Then, the integration process and CE adoption by the construction industry in Yemen are explained for enabling construction agencies in Yemen to improve the development process of their projects and to solve the current fragmentation problems such as the lack of communication, adversarial culture and the lack of customer focus, which allows the construction process to improve and become more effective and efficient.
Highlights
The new developments in Information Technology (IT) and information systems have created a very competitive environment for all organizations in all sectors including the construction industry
Construction organizations must adopt some developments to support their business environment accompanied by the implementation of new management concepts such as concurrent engineering (CE) [1]
The implementation of CE in the construction industry requires a series of changes, which can be divided into two main aspects: the managerial and human aspect and the technological aspect
Summary
The new developments in Information Technology (IT) and information systems have created a very competitive environment for all organizations in all sectors including the construction industry. Due to this situation, construction organizations must adopt some developments to support their business environment accompanied by the implementation of new management concepts such as concurrent engineering (CE) [1]. The basic concept of CE is to consider all the factors of the product life cycle (including quality, cost, schedule and user requirements) at the beginning of product development, which can shorten the time to market and improve quality while controlling costs [3]. This paper discusses the current problems in the construction industry in Yemen and how to benefit from the implementation of concurrent engineering in the construction industry in Yemen to solve the problems caused by the use of serial engineering in the construction industry, and the integration of systems and teams to support CE execution
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