Methods and Tools for Co-operative and Integrated Design

Collaborative large engineering: from IT dream to reality.- From design to life-cycle approaches: the EU perspective.- A modular framework for the economic performance control in manufacturing segments. A life cycle oriented approach.- Quotation for the value added assessment during product development and production processes.- Man-machine system re-design from the ergonomics perspective. A new methodology for production system optimization.- Contribution to the building of an equipment design method in developing countries using an analysis of traditional practices.- Manufacturing process selection and integration in product design. Analysis and synthesis approaches.- Integrating kinematics and physically-based simulation in a car sunroof virtual prototyping.- Sharing computational simulation knowledge for co-operative work in the design process.- Surface reconstruction of freeform objects based on multiresolution volumetric method for distributed CAD.- The feature-based styling process in car body engineering. Introducing styling features.- A new design orientated digitilization technology. Integration of the conceptual design into the design process.- Applicability of engineering design theories on manufacturing system design in the context of concurrent engineering.- Image theory in integrated product and process design.- Conceptual design in a high-tech environment.- Adaptive and competent network structures for the development and design of high-tech products.- Managing uncertainty of product data. An enhancement on constraint programming techniques.- Integration of new dimensions in design process. Application to the environmental dimension.- Environment and design. Towards methods and tools for integration and co-operation.- Excellency in industrial product development. A promising way to success.- A proposition to capitalize and share the logic of design.- A design environment for product knowledge management and data exchange.- Flexible software framework for collaboration systems.- A cooperative system for the design of the mechatronic products with multidisciplinary optimisation.- Assembly simulation in the design process in a distributed environment.- New application areas of digital mock-up within product development.- Interface between CAD/CAM software and an integrative engineering design environment.- Modelling of participatory manufacturing process.- Collaborative development of tools and dies in SMEs networks.- Evaluation of the element model "working surface pairs & channel and support structures". The evaluation of a new scientific approach for the training of creative engineers and scientists.- Communicating context and strategy for collaborative design in networks and corporations.- If only I knew what you were going to do. Communication and planning in large organizations.- Co-operation and co-ordination during the design process. Empirical studies and characterization.- Supporting global design teams through virtual design offices.- Distributed design - Current approaches and evolution tendencies. Designing with internet.- Case study on low cost distributed conceptual design support for small teams.- Ship optimisation with distant application tools.- Interoperability between CAD and simulation models for cooperative design.- Verification of human factors in manufacturing process design. A virtual experimentation approach.- Towards a formalization of collaboration entities to manage conflicts appearing in cooperative product design.- Authors index.