Results of ECN-WG Meetings

You can find the technical results of all past CIRP ECN-WG meetings here. For all meeting dates, locations, agendas, and minutes, please check the "Meetings" and "Minutes" sections.

Click on a specific year: [2003] - [2004] - [2005] - [2006] to view the meeting results during that period:

2003 Results

2003 January Meeting in Paris, France ---

• "Some Critical Thoughts on the Future of CAPP Research", by Stephen. Lu, January 2003, (Presentation)
  • This presentation suggested to the CIRP community to establish a new ECN Working Group as a continuing effort to the accomplished CAPP WG in STC/O. The technical justifications and logical links between CAPP and ECN are made.
• "Report on the CIRP Working Group CAPP 2000-2003", by Kess van Luttervelt, February 2003, (Document)
  • This final report to CIRP formally endorsed the establishment of the new ECN WG as a continuing effort to the accomplished CAPP WG. It suggested that the ECN WG should report to both STC/Dn and STC/O.

2003 August Meeting in Montreal, Canada ---

• "The Vision, Mission, Goals, and Tasks of ECN/WG", by Stephen Lu, August 2003, (Presentation)
  • This presentation laid out the vision, mission, goals and tasks for the ECN WG within the 3-year period for group discussions. It also contained an introduction of the new ECN decision style, and how it is different from the traditional engineering paradigms.
• "ECN WG Report to STCs A/Dn/O", by Robert G. Wilhelm, September 2003, (Presentation)
  • This presentation was prepared for the STCs A/Dn/O as a summary of the ECN WG discussions and plans made at the August 2003 CIRP GA meeting in Montreal, Canada.

   

2004 Results

2004 January Meeting in Paris, France ---

• "2004 January ECN WG Meeting Presentation", by Stephen Lu, January 2004, (Presentation)
  • This are the presentation slides used to guide the ECN WG meeting held in January 2004 in paris.
• "Engineering as Collaborative Negotiation: a New Paradigm for Collaborative Engineering Research", by Stephen Lu, January 2004, (Document)
  • This is a draft article that proposes ECN as an intellectual foundation for collaborative engineering research. The ECN background, justification, framework, definition, and its impacts on engineering decision making are all included in this article. You are encouraged to read and comment on this article, and send feedbacks and suggestions to the author.
• "Engineering Design Collaboration/Negotiation Research and Practice - The Forth Wave", by Waguih El-Maraghy, January 2004, (Presentation)
  • This is a presentation made by the ECN American Liaison, Prof. Waguih El-Maraghy, as a progress report to the ECN working group at the January 2004 meeting.
• "ECN and Selected CIRP Research in Design and Process Planning", by Paul G. Maropoulos, January 2004, (Presentation)
  • This is a presentation made by the ECN Europe Liaison, Prof. Paul Maropoulos, as a progress report to the ECN working group at the January 2004 meeting.
• "Strategic Development of the ECN Working Group", by Robert G. Wilhelm, January 2004, (Presentation)
  • This is a presentation made by the ECN Technical Secretary, Prof. Bob Wilhelm, as a progress report to the ECN working group at the January 2004 meeting.
• "Negotiation in the Geometric World: Tolerance Research and ECN", by Robert G. Wilhelm, January 2004, (Presentation)
  • This is a technical presentation made by Prof. Bob Wilhelm of University of North Carolina at the January 2004 ECN WG meeting in Paris.
• "Cost Engineering / Engineering Design and ECN", by Rajkumar Roy, January 2004, (Presentation)
  • This is a technical presentation made by Prof. Rajkumar Roy of the Cranfield University at the January 2004 ECN WG meeting in Paris.
• "Supporting Negotiation Processes with Logistic Operating Curves", by W.-P. Wiendahl and H. Lodding, January 2004, (Document)
  • This is a technical presentation made by Prof. Wiendahl of the University of Hannover at the January 2004 ECN WG meeting in Paris.
• "A Step Toward Building an ECN Roadmap", by Stephen Lu, January 2004, (Presentation)
  • This is a technical presentation made by Prof. Stephen Lu of the University of Southern California at the January 2004 ECN WG meeting in Paris.

2004 August Meeting in Krakow, Poland ---

• "ECN and Mass Customerization", by Mitchell M. Tseng, August 2004, (Presentation)
  • This is a technical presentation made by Prof. Mitchell Tseng of the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology at the August 2004 ECN WG meeting in Krakow, Poland.
• "SYSTEMIC NATURE OF ENGINEERING AS A BASE FOR COLLABORATIVE NEGOTIATIONS TO OBTAIN ECONOMIC GROWTH AND INCREASED WELFARE", by Gunnar Sohlenius, August 2004, (Presentation) (Paper)
  • This is a technical presentation made by Prof. Gunnar Sohlenius of the Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden, at the August 2004 ECN WG meeting in Krakow, Poland.
• "Different Negotiation Levels for Product Introduction", by Guenther Schuh, August 2004, (Presentation)
  • This is a technical presentation made by Prof. Guenther Schuh of the Technical University of Aachen at the August 2004 ECN WG meeting in Krakow, Poland.
• "An Agent-based Framework to Support ECN", by Yan Jin, August 2004, (Presentation)
  • This is a technical presentation made by Prof. Yan Jin of the University of Southern California at the August 2004 ECN WG meeting in Krakow, Poland.
• "Team Syntegrity - Using Cybernetics for Opinion Forming of Negotiation in Organizations", by Hans-Peter Wiendahl, August 2004, (Presentation)
  • This is a technical presentation made by Prof. H.-P. Wiendahl of the University of Hannover at the August 2004 ECN WG meeting in Krakow, Poland.
• "A Socio-Technical Framework for Engineering Negotiation", by Stephen Lu, August 2004, (Presentation)
  • This is a technical presentation made by Prof. Stephen Lu of the University of Southern California at the August 2004 ECN WG meeting in Krakow, Poland.

2005 Results

2006 Results