Collaborative Product Design and Manufacturing Methodologies and Applications

Abstract

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. An Adaptable Service-based Framework for Distributed Product Realization -- A Web-based Intelligent Collaborative System for Engineering Design -- A Shared VE for Collaborative Product Development in Manufacturing Enterprises -- A {u2018}Plug-and-Play{u2019} Computing Environment for an Extended Enterprise -- Cooperative Design in Building Construction -- A Fine-grain and Feature-oriented Product Database for Collaborative Engineering -- A Web-based Framework for Distributed and Collaborative Manufacturing -- Wise-ShopFloor: A Portal toward Collaborative Manufacturing -- Real Time Distributed Shop Floor Scheduling: An Agent-based Service-oriented Framework -- Leveraging Design Process Related Intellectual Capital {u2014} A Key to Enhancing Enterprise Agility -- Manufacturing Information Organization in Product Lifecycle Management -- Semantic Interoperability to Support Collaborative Product Development -- A Proposal of Distributed Virtual Factory for Collaborative Production Management.