Microengineering and Macroengineering

Abstract

The progress of Internet of Things brought us the connected society. Up to now, engineering has focused its attention to achieve high quality individual products, but in the connected society, products work as a team. Therefore, we have to deal with such product teams as networks with primary attention to how these product teams can adapt to the frequently and extensively changing situations and at the same time to meet the customer’s expectations. In this paper, traditional engineering focused on individual product realization which is tree-structured, is called microengineering, and the new emerging engineering which deals with a product team and is network-based, is called microengineering. What are needed to establish microengineering is discussed in this paper.