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However, the lack of tools that address design team formulation and proper design task assignment in CE has made its application an immense challenge. In this article we explicitly address this issue by pointing out the relevance of its structure to cell-formation problem in cellular manufacturing (CM) and group technology. Particularly, interdisciplinary CE teams will be formulated as multifunctional machine-cells that process similar parts, in our case, design tasks requiring involvement of similar individuals. The fruitful marriage of the two disciplines, concurrent engineering and cellular manufacturing, opens the path towards utilizing the ample existing efficient algorithms of cellular manufacturing to concurrent engineering rather than re-inventing the wheel in developing methods in this respect. 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