With widely used concurrent and collaborative engineering technologies, the validity and
consistency of product information become important. In order to establish the state of the …

The report presents a core model for representing design information, motivated by the
perceived needs of next-generation product development systems and drawing contentlevel …

Conceptual process planning (CPP) is an important technique for assessing the
manufacturability and estimating the cost of conceptual design in the early product design …

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Design and Process Planning
Integration (DPPI) project is develo** an open, neutral manufacturing process object …

Constructing complex software systems by integrating different software components is a
promising and challenging approach. With the functionality of software components given by …

To meet a wide range of customer needs, a variety of product concepts can be modeled
employing a platform approach. Whereas frequent market changes can be accommodated …

Software agents have been increasingly used in the product and process development in
industry over the past years due to the rapid evolvement of the Internet technology. This …

For car and aircraft industries, Design for Manufacturing, Robust Design and Conceptual
Process Planning are a key activity to evaluate manufacturability, to improve design in the …

The undertaken project aims at offering a support for the manufacturing cost estimation of
products in the conceptual design phase. This need for dedicated tools for designers …

An essential part of process planning is to select the appropriate manufacturing processes
and to determine their order from manufacturing knowledge. Ontology technology is …