Collaborative Product Design and Manufacturing Methodologies and...

Features

• Cover Type: Hard Cover with 308 pages
• Published by: Springer
• Edition: 1st Edition March 29, 2007
• Written in: English
• ISBN 10 Number: 1846288010
• ISBN 13 Number: 978-1846288012
• Book Dimensions: 9.3 x 6.4 x 1.1 inches
• Weighs: 1.3 pounds

Product Description


Recently, there have been major innovations and paradigm shifts in product design methodologies and systems. The current R&D trend is the development of collaborative design and manufacturing methodologies and systems. Using a collaborative product development system, designers can participate in global design chains and collaborate with each other and overseas partners to pursue competitive advantages. It also allows designers to work closely with suppliers, manufacturing partners and customers across enterprise firewalls to obtain valuable inputs for their designs.

Collaborative Product Design and Manufacturing Methodologies and Applications is an introduction to a wide spectrum of collaborative engineering issues in design and manufacturing. It contains 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.

Collaborative Product Design and Manufacturing Methodologies and Applications is an essential reference for academics, upper-level undergraduate and graduate students and practitioners specialising in collaborative design and manufacturing issues, concurrent engineering, Internet-based/intelligent design and manufacturing, CAD/PDM/CAPP/CAM, Internet applications, product lifecycle management, supply chain, etc.

About The Author


W.D. Li is a research fellow at the IMRC (Innovative Manufacturing Research Centre) at the University of Bath, UK. His research interests include collaborative product design and manufacturing, application of intelligent technologies in product design and manufacturing. CAD/CAPP/CAM, 3D geometric and feature-based modeling and applications, and design methodologies. In these areas, he has led various research and industrial projects as principal investigator or co-principal investigator.

S.K. Ong is an associate professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the National University of Singapore. Her research interests are intelligent and distributed manufacturing systems, computer-aided set-up planning, life cycle engineering, environment impact assessment, and virtual and augmented reality applications in manufacturing. In 2004, she received the M. Eugene Merchant Outstanding Young Manufacturing Engineer Award from the Society of Manufacturing Engineers. She was also a recipient of the 2004 Singapore Youth Award in the Science and Technology category.

Andrew Y.C. Nee is a professor of manufacturing engineering in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the National University of Singapore (NUS), and the Director of the Office of Research at the NUS. His research interests are computer applications for tool, die, fixture design and planning; intelligent and distributed manufacturing systems; and, virtual and augmented reality applications in manufacturing. He is an active member of CIRP and an elected Fellow of the Society of Manufacturing Engineers.

Chris McMahon is a professor of engineering design in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Bath, UK, where he is an active teacher and researcher in engineering design and manufacture. He is also Director of the Bath Engineering Innovative Manufacturing Research Centre (IMRC), a center of excellence for research in design and manufacture funded by the UK’s Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council, and comprising some 35 researchers working in a variety of research topics in design technologies, design information and knowledge management, and manufacturing processes and systems. His research interests include computer-aided design, engineering information management, risk and uncertainty in design, design process improvement, design for remanufacturing, and design for fatigue.