The main drivers for the development and evolution of Cyber Physical Systems (CPS) are
the reduction of development costs and time along with the enhancement of the designed …

This work is aimed at establishing a common frame and understanding of function modeling
(FM) for our ongoing research activities. A comparative review of the literature is performed …

With the advent of new generation information technologies in industry and product design,
the big data-driven product design era has arrived. However, the big data-driven product …

Abstract Recently,“Big Data” has attracted not only researchers' but also manufacturers'
attention along with the development of information technology. In this paper, the concept …

Cloud-based design manufacturing (CBDM) refers to a service-oriented networked product
development model in which service consumers are enabled to configure, select, and utilize …

The manufacturing industry involves innumerable complex tasks that require significant
knowledge and experience to execute. With the rapid development of artificial intelligence …

Generating novel and useful concepts is essential during the early design stage to explore a
large variety of design opportunities, which usually requires advanced design thinking ability …

Product design is a highly involved, often ill-defined, complex and iterative process, and the
needs and specifications of the required artifact get more refined only as the design process …

In the schematic design phase of framed tube structures, component sizing is a vital task that
requires expert experience and domain knowledge. Deep learning-based structural design …

Additive manufacturing (AM) is emerging as an important manufacturing process and a key
technology for enabling innovative product development. Design for additive manufacturing …