In recent times, the development and manufacture of new products and the necessary tools
required to carry out such activities has resulted in vast amounts of knowledge and …

C reating an effective work environment and process is necessary for successful product
design and development. Literature and design managers explain their unique design …

Product development process is a complex one due to the involvement of highly coupled
tasks and people over a certain period of time. So far there has been little success in …

A framework for integrated product development in a knowledge-based engineering
environment is presented in this paper. The idea is to bring the issues of manufacturing and …

Various approaches to capturing and retrieving engineering design information and intent
are currently used in industry and play an important role in engineering design collaboration …

On partnerships between design research groups and industry, Ken Wallace has long held
the view that a few carefully nurtured long term relationships make for far more effective …

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 …

This research aims to understand how knowledge is used in various design activities from a
human factors perspective, and develop a methodology that can be used to support …

The complex task of Product Development has been a major challenge for product
manufacturers and developers since the introduction of complex mechanical systems. The …

Abstract Knowledge and information management has focused on how available knowledge
is exploited to enhance organisational performance especially in marketing, costing, design …