Concurrent engineering encourages holistic product development, considering all aspects
of the product in design decisions.“Design for X”(DFX) techniques are popular for doing this …

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advancements of all the main areas of technical textiles Created to be a comprehensive …

Traditionally, design and manufacturing activities have taken place sequentially rather than
simultaneously leading to inefficient and time consuming iterations between design and …

Purpose–The purpose of this paper is to present a model linking the role of design
engineers to shared team knowledge, enhanced manufacturability, and product …

Sustainable manufacturing is a rising issue. Ensuring both consumer satisfaction and
minimal environmental impact is very challenging. In that whole process, it is customary to …

Thermoplastic polycarbonates are known to be a lightweight and safe alternative to
conventional materials (especially, metals and glasses) in numerous industrial domains …

Competitive Product Design is more and more linked to mastering the challenge of the
complexity and the multidisciplinary nature of modern products in an integrated fashion from …

The aim of the work presented in this paper is to enable production of large, complex
components on rapid prototyping machines whose build volume is less than the size of the …

This paper focuses on an innovative end-of-use strategy: repurposing, defined as a
manufacturing process through which products nearing their end-of-life are reused in …

Abstract Semantics-based approaches–founded on the idea of explicitly encoding meaning
separately from the data or the application code–are being applied to manufacturing, for …