Collaborative Product Design and Manufacturing Methodologies and Applications

Collaborative Product Design and Manufacturing Methodologies and Applications introduces a wide spectrum of collaborative engineering issues in design and manufacturing. It offers state-of-the-art chapters written by international experts from academia and industry, and reflects the most up-to-date R & D work and applications, especially those from the last three to five years. The book will serve as an essential reference for academics, upper-level undergraduate and graduate students and practicing professionals.

An Adaptable Service-based Framework for Distributed Product Realization.- A Web-based Intelligent Collaborative System for Engineering Design.- A Shared VE for Collaborative Product Development in Manufacturing Enterprises.- A ‘Plug-and-Play’ Computing Environment for an Extended Enterprise.- Cooperative Design in Building Construction.- A Fine-grain and Feature-oriented Product Database for Collaborative Engineering.- A Web-based Framework for Distributed and Collaborative Manufacturing.- Wise-ShopFloor: A Portal toward Collaborative Manufacturing.- Real Time Distributed Shop Floor Scheduling: An Agent-based Service-oriented Framework.- Leveraging Design Process Related Intellectual Capital — A Key to Enhancing Enterprise Agility.- Manufacturing Information Organization in Product Lifecycle Management.- Semantic Interoperability to Support Collaborative Product Development.- A Proposal of Distributed Virtual Factory for Collaborative Production Management.