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Unlike the recent arrival of Web 2.0, Facebook®, or Twitter®, the concept of concurrent engineering has been around for at least 30 years. Even as far back as 1988, concurrent engineering was a hot topic, as indicated by a report from the Institute for Defense Analysis (IDA) titled The Role of Concurrent Engineering in Weapons System Acquisition. Since that time, the promise of concurrent engineering, or CE, has captured both the imagination and the work habits of increasing numbers of product developers, from design engineers to company CEOs.