Collaborative Product Design and Manufacturing Methodologies and Applications

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Li, W. D. (Editor), McMahon, Chris (Editor), Ong, S. K. (Editor), Nee, Andrew Y. C. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: London : Springer London, 2007.
• Series: Springer Series in Advanced Manufacturing,
• Subjects: Engineering.; Computer-aided engineering.; Engineering design.; Industrial engineering.; Production engineering.; Social sciences.; Engineering Design.; Computer-Aided Engineering (CAD, CAE) and Design.; Industrial and Production Engineering.; Social Sciences, general.

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 i...

Table of Contents:

• 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 ‘Plug-and-Play’ 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 — 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.