Objective The goal of this study is to identify gaps and challenges related to cross-domain
model management focusing on consistency checking. Method We conducted a systematic …

Global competitiveness challenges manufacturing industry to rationalise different ways of
bringing to the market new products in a short lead-time with competitive prices whilst …

Recent advances in design techniques promote the development of concurrent engineering
to reduce the time and cost of the design cycle. This is particularly necessary for mechatronic …

In this paper, we propose to deal with the complexity of today's collaborative product design
processes using one of the recent and widely used modeling paradigms in industry which is …

Companies are taking advantage of cloud computing to upgrade their business processes.
Cloud computing requires interaction with many kinds of applications, so it is necessary to …

In mechatronic collaborative design, there is a synergic integration of several expert
domains, where heterogeneous knowledge needs to be shared. To address this challenge …

The ongoing sophistication in costumer's needs have increased the complexity in the
Integrated Product Development Process (IPDP). This remarkable growth demands that …

In today's manufacturing settings, a sudden increase in the customer demand may enforce
manufacturers to alter their manufacturing systems either by adding new resources or …

Due to growing concerns with sustainability issues and the emergence of the Circular
Economy (CE) paradigm, combined with recent technological changes and consequent …

Current processes for highly interdisciplinary and complex smart products rely on the
support of a big variety of IT systems. At the lowest level, authoring systems are used to …