Planning product development processes (PDP), and particularly new product development
(NPD) processes, is complex and challenging. The plan should reflect the product-related …

Current planning practice takes little account of the interdisciplinary, iterative nature of the
building design process. This leads to a compromised design process containing inevitable …

Evolutionary algorithms, a form of meta-heuristic, have been successfully applied to a
number of classes of complex combinatorial problems such as the well-studied travelling …

In contrast to the current overall aircraft design techniques, the design of multirotor vehicles
generally consists of skill-based selection procedures or is based on pure empirical …

The broad interest in concurrent engineering has inspired research in the area of
decomposition in mechanical design. Much of the research reported in the literature falls into …

Decomposition of large engineering system models is desirable sinceincreased model size
reduces reliability and speed of numericalsolution algorithms. The article presents a …

By the mid-1990s, the importance of early introduction of new products to both market share
and profitability became fully understood. Thus, reducing product time-to-market became an …

Faster Product development is a major goal for companies in competitive markets. Product
platform architectures support planning for addressing diverse markets and fulfilling future …

This paper presents a risk assessment strategy for managing the design process. The
proposed method intends to provide the foundation for an intelligent system that can assist …

Many companies are looking for new tools and techniques to aid a design manager in
making decisions that can reduce the time and cost of a design cycle. One tool is the Design …