Beyond Concurrent Engineering: Parallel Distributed Engineering for More Adaptability and Less Energy Consumption

A Parallel Distributed Processing (PDP) or Neural Network model is proposed to re-organize industries so that they can share knowledge and experience among them. This re-organized industry framework, which is called Parallel Distributed Engineering here, develops interchangeable components at its intermediate level and combines them into final products to meet the requirements of customers. Thus, it brings forth greater flexibility to adapt to very frequently and extensively changing situations and what is more important, it reduces time, cost and energy consumption and increase productivity considerably. And it will satisfy customers more because their diverse requirements can be more precisely met.