We investigate here antecedents and consequences of supplier integration (black-box and gray-box) in product development activities. Antecedents include embeddedness with suppliers, supply base rationalization, and supplier selection based on product development capabilities. Product innovation and quality are modeled as returns of supplier integration in product development. We also assess the...

The complicated products design is a process of conflict resolution and integration decision for collaborative optimization involved in multiple disciplines including mechanical engineering, electronical engineering and control engineering, etc. It’s also a multi-disciplinary field of complex knowledge fusion process. The architecture of the product design knowledge is given by the description ...

Online shopping is a very goal-oriented activity. Consumers have a set of preferences for a product or service that is used as criteria for assessment of the available alternatives. However, crucial information about products is often available as text reviews. Finding a product with specific features is extremely timeconsuming using the typical search functionality found in existing shopping s...

this paper presents a computational method for solving two types of integro-differential equations, system of nonlinear high order volterra-fredholm integro-differential equation(vfides) and nonlinear fractional order integro-differential equations. our tools for this aims is operational matrices of integration and fractional integration. by this method the given problems reduce to solve a syst...

A nonlinear boundary value problem for Laplace's equation is solved numerically by using a reformulation as a nonlinear boundary integral equation. Two numerical methods are proposed and analyzed for discretizing the integral equation, both using product integration to approximate the singular integrals in the equation. The first method uses the product Simpson's rule, and the second is based o...

In this paper, a flexible beam-based modeling method is proposed for dimensional control of the sheet metal assembly process. This method uses developed decomposition principles of key design and manufacturing characteristics for integration of assembly process and product design. It allows for modeling of assembly processes and product in the early design stage of process and product design. T...

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...