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 …

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 …

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 …

Modern product design and development organizations have to adopt flexible and dynamic
working arrangements to meet the increasingly varied demands of their customers …

New product development (NPD) can be described as both complex and multidisciplinary,
and also as an activity that often requires significant amounts of design knowledge …

Product engineering is a highly knowledge intensive process, where knowledge is required
as input for various decisions and product engineering activities and is created and …

Manufacturing enterprises are under increasing pressure to produce products of higher
quality at lower cost in shorter time frames if they are to remain competitive. Engineering …

In today's competitive market, design firms are under pressure to enhance the speed of their
decision-making processes to foster innovative products. Due to specialized nature of …

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 …