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Transcendal Engineering -- Eduardo Olive-Lopez
ISSS Meeting at Asilomar, June 28-July 2, 1999
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Paper session, June 30, 1999, 3:05 p.m., hosted by Enrique Herrscher
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Student's study
Computer integrated manufacturing in Mexico.
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CIM not completely successful in any case.
Elements of computerized system were not installed wisely, not properly
related to the strategy of the organization or productivity.
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Had computerized production islands.
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This means resources are being put into areas where they may or may not
be successful.
None of the installations reached the expected levels.
Systemic view of engineering concepts
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Invention --> Design --> Manufacturing --> Society
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CIM <--> Enterprise Resource Planning
Want engineering to transcend time and space.
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Now have many partnerships in alliances, internationally.
Questions
Why transcedental?
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Transcend in time, permeate all of the parts of the organization.
NASA concurrent engineering
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Understanding as design almost done at the same time as manufacturing.
Another understanding of concurrent engineering: bringing externalities
and community groups into design process.
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In addition, understanding geography, i.e. space.
Philosophical problem: transcendental engineering invokes transcendal accounting,
transcedental marketing, etc. .... If really transcending, then shouldn't
be disciplinary.
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See engineering from a broader perspective: the implementation of conscious,
natural action into processes of any kind.
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