CE (Concurrent Engineering) refers to integrated or parallel engineering. It constitutes an engineering or management method that highlights the fact that a quality system or product is created by a number of processes occurring in parallel and impacting on each other. For example, product design, manufacture, marketing and profitability should be planned in parallel, with all relevant parties working together as a cohesive unit: designer, production manager, marketing manager and finance manager. CE also highlights the concepts of Design for Maintainability, Design for Testability etc. This means that system design (analysis) should relate to future phases rather than, for example, ignoring the inevitability the testing phase only to discover that the product as designed is incapable of passing a specific test.

• For further explanation, including aspects of IT systems and their relationship with MethodA, See Other Methods and Methodology Integration Kit.