Collaborative Engineering: Theory and Practice

✍ Scribed by Ali K. Kamrani, Ali K. Kamrani, Emad Abouel Nasr

• Publisher: Springer
• Year: 2008
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 300
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Collaborative Engineering (CE) is the systematic approach to the integrated, concurrent design of products and related processes, including manufacturing, product service and support. This approach is intended to cause the developers to consider all elements of the product life cycle from conception through disposal, including quality, cost, schedule, and user requirements. The objective of Collaborative Engineering is to reduce the system/product development cycle time through a better integration of resources, activities and processes.

Collaborative Engineering: Theory and Practice offers insights into the methods and techniques that enable implementing a Collaborative Engineering concept on product design by integrating capabilities for intelligent information support and group decision-making utilizing a common enterprise network model and knowledge interface through shared ontologies.

The book is also a collection of the latest applied methods and technology from selected experts in this area which will be structured in a way useful in assisting and structuring the course.

✦ Table of Contents

Contents......Page 11
List of Authors......Page 13
Table of Figures......Page 15
1. Collaborative Design Approach in Product Design and Development......Page 19
2. Template-Based Integrated Design: A Case Study......Page 36
3. Six Sigma: Continuous Improvement Toward Excellence......Page 59
4. Supply Chain Workfl ow Modeling Using Ontologies......Page 77
5. Data-Mining Process Overview......Page 104
6. Intelligent Design and Manufacturing......Page 118
7. Rapid Manufacturing......Page 141
8. Simulation-Based Optimization: A Case Study for Airline's Cargo Service Call Center......Page 167
9. Robotics and Autonomous Robots......Page 187
10. Modular Design......Page 221
11. Manufacturing Complexity Analysis: A Simulation-Based Methodology......Page 241
12. Designing Cellular Manufacturing for Next Generation Production Systems......Page 263
C......Page 296
H......Page 297
O......Page 298
S......Page 299
X......Page 300