Bibliometric analysis of the term 'Three-Dimensional Concurrent Engineering'

Three-dimensional concurrent engineering (3DCE) concept provides a new approach for integrating product, process, and supply chain design. The opportunities to shorten product development lead time and time to market eventually, increase product variant and quality, and reduce product development costs become a concern. However, the 3DCE approach is not yet comprehensive since the researches are continuing and growing. This article provides a bibliometric literature review on 3DCE as a term and concept through mainly Scopus database and Mendeley software for managing and resuming the references. After manual filtering and reading we conclude 39 articles strongly related to the term of 3DCE. Finally, we classified the articles based on its keywords into two clusters of words using VOSviewer software. Moreover, we found that 'supply chain', 'product development', and 'product design' were the most frequently used for keywords, titles, or abstracts that represented the research stream or the researcher's background.