The paper provides a comprehensive insight into current trends and developments in Concurrent Engineering for integrated development of products and processes with the goal of completing the entire cycle in a shorter time, at lower overall cost and with fewer engineering design changes after product launch. The evolution and definition of Concurrent Engineering are addressed first, followed by ...

CAD systems are very useful tools in the industry, because they help design processes and new product development. However, it requires new mechanisms of interaction to provide greater usability of these tools. This usability can be provided through new interaction devices such as Kinect. We describe a methodology to find a series of gestures makes by the hands for control a CAD system with Kin...

Project management (PM) is vital to the survival of many organizations. Traditional PM focuses on a single project at a single location (Evaristo and Fenema 1999) and is more concerned with project inputs and outputs than with project process (Turner 2000). The PM paradigm has begun to change due to the increasing number of distributed projects (Jonsson et al. 2001). Current and future PM will ...

Iteration is a dominant though unwelcome feature of product development. Controlling this iteration can reduce the time needed to complete product development projects. Management must decide how long each project should spend in a design stage before it undergoes a design review (or test). This paper presents a model of iteration that can be used to make this decision. The paper considers the ...

FEBRANSYAH, ADE. A Feature-based Approach to Automating High-Level Process Planning. (Under the direction of Professors Ezat T. Sanii and Denis R. Cormier) High-level process planning plays an important role in determining candidate process domains at the configuration design stage. Changing the processes domains later increases the product development cycle and the product development cost. Th...

Design optimization combines mathematical optimization algorithms with engineering analysis models to generate designs with improved performance. In product development this approach is useful for products with a large number of interdependent design decisions or for new products where significant experience has not yet been accumulated. Current efforts are directed primarily towards complex an...