A Concurrent Engineering approach towards digital dentistry support

Abstract

Concurrent Engineering concentrate on enterprise collaboration and its many difference elements using multi/interdisciplinary solutions, ranging from integrating people involved in design/production to processes of whole production life cycle. In the mean time, digital dentistry is getting popular these days supported by various design/manufacturing support tools, machines, and systems. This paper covers an approach of CE towards dental applications, including design of dental milling machine, digital dentistry in crown preparation process, and design of angle measurement devices for dentists. Each of these topics is from the individual research projects conducted by the collaboration team of the author. Reviewing these research results, this paper discusses the feasibility of concurrent engineering towards digital dentistry. © Springer-Verlag London 2013.