With the rapid advances in computing and Internet technologies, an integrated and collaborative environment, which is based on the complementary functions of concurrent engineering and Internet-based collaborative engineering, is imperative for companies to facilitate and expedite the product realization processes. Topics such as concurrent and collaborative engineering, feature-based design and manufacturing, evolutionary computational techniques such as Tabu Search, Simulated Annealing, Genetic Algorithms features, intelligent and computer-aided process planning are important strategies and enabling technologies for developing an integrative environment, facilitating modern product design and development. This book covers the state-of-the-art research and development status of these strategies and technologies. Implementation strategies and case studies are provided with an emphasis on technical details to help readers understand the underlying algorithms and infrastructures. Sample Chapter(s). Chapter 1: Introduction (1,068 KB). Contents: Manufacturing Feature Recognition Technology OCo State-of-the-Art; A Hybrid Method for Interacting Manufacturing Feature Recognition; Integration of Design-by-Feature and Manufacturing Feature Recognition; Intelligent Optimisation of Process Planning; Collaborative Computer-Aided Design OCo State-of-the-Art; Development of Web-Based Process Planning Optimisation System; Distributed and Collaborative Design-by-Feature System. Readership: Mechanical and manufacturing engineering graduate students, researchers in the field of concurrent engineering, collaborative engineering and intelligent engineering. Engineers in charge of utilization, development of concurrent and collaborative software tools."

Collaborative Product Design and Manufacturing Methodologies and Applications introduces a wide spectrum of collaborative engineering issues in design and manufacturing. It offers state-of-the-art chapters written by international experts from academia and industry, and reflects the most up-to-date R & D work and applications, especially those from the last three to five years. The book will serve as an essential reference for academics, upper-level undergraduate and graduate students and practicing professionals.

Collaborative Engineering for Product Design and Development provides an in depth analysis of the collaborative technologies, processes and methodologies to support the product design and development process. The materials covered in the textbook attempt to integrate leading edge research concepts in collaborative product development with current practices in the real world. The book is written by renowned experts in the field of collaborative product development and provided total coverage of current technologies and tools and their applications to the product development. The book is an excellent text and a perfect reference for upper-level undergraduate and graduate students, researchers, engineers and practitioners in the field of collaborative product design, development and engineering, industrial engineering, manufacturing engineering and computer integrated manufacturing.

“Collaborative Product and Service Life Cycle Management for a Sustainable World” gathers together papers from the 15th ISPE International Conference on Concurrent Engineering (CE2008), to stimulate the new thinking that is so crucial to our sustained productivity enhancement and quality of life. It is already evident in this new century that the desire for sustainable development is increasingly driving the market to reach for new and innovative solutions that more effectively utilize the resources we have inherited from previous generations; with the obvious responsibility to future generations. Human productivity and progress can be positively engineered and managed in harmony with the provision and needs of our natural environment. One century on from the industrial revolution, this is now the time of the sustainable revolution; requiring holistic technological, process and people integrated solutions to sustained socio-economic enhancement.

This superb study offers insights into the methods and techniques that enable the implementation of a Collaborative Engineering concept on product design. It does so by integrating capabilities for intelligent information support and group decision-making, utilizing a common enterprise network model and knowledge interface through shared ontologies. The book is also a collection of the latest applied methods and technology from selected experts in this area.

These proceedings represent trends in Product Development concerning industrial vendors and scientific research aspects. Coverage includes the following topics are covered: Design Theory, Product Design, Requirements, Collaborative Engineering, Complex Design, Mechatronics, Reverse Engineering, Virtual Prototyping, CAE, KBE and PLM. The papers presented in this book show that answers can only be composed out of a variety of solutions where psychological, economical and technical research results are taken into account.