A Hypermedia Based Model for Concurrent Engineering

Concurrent engineering activities can be greatly improved thanks to reusing abilities both for the engineered products and their related information and for the project management and its tasks parallelization The architecture we built to support such an organization is based on this paradigm and integrates both the information system and the project description and management As the first point is quite close to docu ments management whereas the second is similar to parallel processing and multi-tasks architecturés in computer science, our meta-model ap plies to concurrent engineering some strategies and tools taken from computer science