A systems approach to process improvement in design and manufacture

The desirable state for a systems engineering firm to be in is to adopt the tenets of concurrent engineering (CE), a means for accomplishing this desired state is to use the doctrine of business process reengineering supported by a suitable systems approach. The ideas postulated in the paper give a new angle of approach to concurrent engineering, as it has been viewed from a human centred stance and reinforced by system models that can visually demonstrate concurrency or lack of it. This approach can help employees at all levels understand what is going on around them, therefore stimulating reengineering actions for improving any concurrency