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The Future of Product Development

Proceedings of the 17th CIRP Design Conference

  • Represent the state of the art developments in CIRP Life Cycle Engineering for Product Development concerning industrial, vendors' and scientific research aspects
  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

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Table of contents (68 papers)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages I-XX
  2. Design Theory

    1. Towards a Generic Model of Smart Synthesis Tools

      • W. O. Schotborgh, H. Tragter, F. G. M. Kokkeler, F. J. A. M. van Houten, T. Tomiyama
      Pages 65-74
    2. Improving Product Development by Design-for-X (DfX) Support

      • A. Bufardi, A. Edler, M. Frey, D. Kiritsis, A. Metin, B. Smith
      Pages 75-84
    3. Trends of Evolutions and Patent Analysis: An Application in the Household Appliances Field

      • A. Crotti, M. Ghitti, D. Regazzoni, C. Rizzi
      Pages 145-154
    4. Results of an Industry Survey on the Application of Dependability Oriented Design Methods

      • Th. Müller, K. Manga, M. Walther, J. Wallaschek
      Pages 175-184

About this book

Product development is one of the most important drivers of innovation. Methods, procedures and systems evoke, enable and support innovation. The papers presented in this book, show that answers can only be composed out of a variety of solutions where psychological, economical and technical research results are taken into account.

The proceedings represent trends in Product Development concerning industrial users and vendors as well as scientific research aspects.

The following topics are covered: Design Theory, Product Design, Requirements, Collaborative Engineering, Complex Design, Mechatronics, Reverse Engineering, Virtual Prototyping, CAE, KBE and PLM.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Fraunhofer IPK, Berlin, Germany

    Frank-Lothar Krause

About the editor

Prof. Dr.-Ing. F.-L. Krause is head of the division "Virtual Product Creation" at the Fraunhofer Institute for Production Systems and Design Technology (IPK) in Berlin. He also has a chair for "Industrial Information Technology" at the Institute for Machine Tools and Factory Management at the Technical University of Berlin.

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eBook USD 119.00
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Softcover Book USD 159.99
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  • Dispatched in 3 to 5 business days
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Hardcover Book USD 219.99
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