In the market-place of the 21st century, there is no place for traditional 'over-the-
wall'communications between design and manufacturing. In order to 'design it right the very …

This thesis describes an investigation into the practical use of ontologies for the
development of information systems. Ontologies are formal descriptions of shared …

This paper reviews the substantial body of research into software and other tools to support
the closely related methodologies of assembly system selection, design for assembly, and …

Conducting business is certainly not the easiest things to do in this hyper-competitive
business fraternity. The scenario for the manufacturing firms is even more challenging as …

Complexity is generally believed to be one of the main causes of the present difficulties in
manufacturing systems. In this article, product assembly complexity is defined as the degree …

Product data exchange and interfacing between different CAD/CAM systems are of great
importance to the development of concurrent integrated design environments and computer …

Life-cycle engineering seeks to incorporate various product life-cycle values into the early
stages of design. These values include functional performance, manufacturability …

The goal of this work is to investigate whether estimates of ease of part handling and part
insertion can be provided by multimodal simulation using virtual environment (VE) …

Assembly is one of the most important stages for product development. Assembly-oriented
design (AOD) is a new approach to designing assemblies, which uses a number of design …

This paper describes a schematic representation of product retirement specification that aids
in design for recycling and reuse. In the past decade, a graphical representation of the …