Associative feature modeling for concurrent engineering integration

Paradigm shift: unified and associative feature-based concurrent and collaborative engineering

With widely used concurrent and collaborative engineering technologies, the validity and consistency of product information become important. In order to establish the state of the art, this paper reviews emerging concurrent and collaborative engineering approaches and emphasizes on the integration of different application systems across product life cycle management (PLM) stages. It is reveale...

Product design-optimization integration via associative optimization feature modeling

Challenges of an Aspect Driven Way in Product Model Supported Robotics

This paper proposes an approach and method to efficient application of product modeling in robotics. Product model is considered as a very integrated data structure where all information can be handled for the lifetime of a product. Similarly to other integration efforts in modeling of products and their production, associativity definitions are applied to connect application oriented robot pro...

Fine Grain Feature Associations in Collaborative Design and Manufacturing - A Unified Approach

In the context of concurrent and collaborative engineering, the validity and consistency of product information become important. However, it is difficult for the current computer-aided systems to check the information validity and consistency because the engineers’ intent is not fully represented in a consistent product model. This chapter consolidates a theoretic unified product modelling sch...

Behavior Based Modeling as an Advanced Tool for the Engineering Practice

This paper introduces a modeling method as a contribution to advanced modeling of products where the main objectives are changing from simple description and relating of engineering objects to description of engineering process related entities and modeled object behaviors. In the proposed method, techniques have been introduced by the authors to include intelligent model features in industrial...