Driven by the inspiration to develop a new aircraft that incorporates all fields of aeronautical engineering, the focal point of this designapproach is the geometric modelling. Since innovative technologies need to be included in novel configurations, every new idea has to be modelled in a comprehensible manner. Feedbacks coming from the analysed models are easily integrated in the next iterati...

Traditional mask-beginning design flow of micro device is unintuitive and fussy for designers. A hierarchical design method and involved key technologies for features mapping procedure are presented. With the feature-based design framework, the model of micro device is organized by various features in different designing stages, which can be converted into each other based on the mapping rules....

Product design techniques that support mass customization include product platform design, computer-aided parametric design and modular design, among others. Unfortunately, no rigorous method has appeared until now to help designers combine these approaches systematically and maximize the quality and economic benefits of component commonality, particularly for very large number of product varia...