Integrated And Collaborative Product Development Environment: Technologies And Implementations

Download or read book Integrated And Collaborative Product Development Environment: Technologies And Implementations written by Andrew Yeh Ching Nee and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 2006-03-27 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.