Ensuring competitive product design with TeamWorking Coordination

This paper attempts to give an insight and overviews of the major problems and key issues involved in enhancing the product design processes. It argues that in order to truly make the product development process more productive then the emphasis should be placed upon effective teamworking organisation. For this purpose, a TeamWorking Coordination (TWC) system is proposed as the basis upon which to realise this aim by providing support to particular aspects of product design and processes management, namely: Concurrent Engineering, Decision Support, Design Management, Product Management, and Team Engineering