... applications into product development and use. A software tool is presented in which partial steps of the automatic preparation are already implemented. After an analysis of the product structure of a CAD file, the transformation is executed for each component. Functions implemented so far allow, for example...

... product development (1) In order to assist with product design and manufacturing information retrieval and search for optimal solutions, a large and comprehensive data and knowledge base as well as a resource pool are required for a design search engine to support queries and fulfill...

... in the product development process as a result of this expertise. 5 In this framework, impedance only applies to the individual not to the databases. We do not consider the databases to be intelligent artifacts that can impede the formation of information. 6 Of course, it can be argued to extend...

... 2011 22 12 2011 22 12 2011 digital simulation mechanical engineering computing mechatronics product design product development production engineering computing rapid prototyping (industrial) solid modelling virtual prototyping A mechatronic system is the combination...

... structures and evolutionary trends. 01 06 2010 29 03 2011 02 09 2011 02 09 2011 complex networks content management Internet product development public domain software social networking (online) software engineering open-source processes communities product...

...Kenji Shimada This paper presents the current issues and trends in meshing and geometric processing, core tasks in the preparation stage of computational engineering analyses. In product development, computational simulation of product functionality and manufacturing process have contributed...

... of design optimization for constitutive characterization. 29 10 2010 12 04 2011 22 06 2011 22 06 2011 composite materials data structures optimisation product development design optimization material characterization mechatronic systems constitutive response...

...Axel Nordin; Andreas Hopf; Damien Motte; Robert Bjärnemo; Claus-Christian Eckhardt In traditional product development, several iterations are usually necessary to obtain a successful compromise between constraints emanating from engineering, manufacturing, and aesthetics. Moreover, this approach...

... fulfilling these requirements. Lastly, the proposed research is applied on an aeronautic case study for illustrating the potential benefits of such an approach in terms of taking account of assembly knowledge in the early product development stages. 25 03 2010 14 12 2010 31 03 2011 31 03...

...Qianli Xu; Feng Zhou; Jianxin (Roger) Jiao Design innovation that accommodates customers’ affective needs along with their cognitive decisions suggests itself to be of primary importance for a system to convey more added-value. Product development should accommodate complicated interactions among...

...Ruzhen Zhang; Xionghui Zhou To improve the quality of design, reduce the cost of production, and shorten the cycle of product development, an effective system to manage and reuse existing design resources is established. A novel two-step algorithm based on integrated product information model...

...Qize Le; Jitesh H. Panchal Traditional product development efforts are primarily based on well-structured and hierarchical product development processes. The products are systematically decomposed into subsystems that are designed by dedicated teams with well-defined information flows. Over...

... shape modeling point of view. In these cases, rework or repair of data is necessitated before commencing the target process, which results in significant economy loss and delay of product development. Today’s product model data are dumb data because design intents and data quality incorporated...

...Toshiharu Miwa; Kosuke Ishii The acceleration of the product development cycle continues to be a significant challenge for manufacturing enterprises around the world. This paper describes a task planning method that minimizes the number of trial and error to reduce the development time for large...

... reduced. These applications substantiate how the component taxonomy can be utilized to enhance our abilities at computationally supporting the concept generation phase of the design process. 13 07 2006 03 03 2008 06 03 2009 CAD functional analysis product development...

... development, faster identification of assembly and design issues, and a more efficient and less costly product design process. 02 11 2007 01 09 2008 07 11 2008 assembling haptic interfaces product design product development virtual prototyping virtual reality haptics virtual...

...) systems in a unique way. The full potential of the haptic technology is best realized when it is integrated effectively into the product development environment and process. For large manufacturing companies this means integration into a commercial CAD system ( Stewart, et al., 1997, “Direct Integration...

... for inspiring innovative product development, from ideation of solutions to their implementation as products. In ideation, potential solutions to a design problem are generated. To support ideation, two databases are developed with entries having information about natural and artificial systems. A novel generic...

... are demonstrated and a short illustrative example is given. The full practical evaluation of CPM2 will require the development and use of implementation models. 12 10 2005 01 07 2007 28 02 2008 product design product development Unified Modeling Language product data representation...

... concept, 15 components were identified but the morphological search only returned 12 of the same function mapped components resulting in an 80% return of components. 06 04 2006 06 08 2007 28 02 2008 information retrieval matrix algebra product design product development search...