Integration of Process Knowledge into Design Support Systems

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xi

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2. Keynotes

   1. Applications of Axiomatic Design

      • Nam P. Suh

      Pages 1-46

   2. Towards A Universal Design Theory

      • Hans Grabowski, Ralf-Stefan Lossack, El-Fathi El-Mejbri

      Pages 47-56

   3. Artificial intelligence support in design: A survey

      • József Váncza

      Pages 57-68

3. Conceptual design tools I

   1. Requirements for highly interactive system interfaces to support conceptual design

      • T. Wiegers, I. Horváth, J. S. M. Vergeest, E. Z. Opiyo, G. Kuczogi

      Pages 69-78

   2. Methodology for innovative design

      • Serge Tichkiewitch, Lionel Roucoules

      Pages 79-88

   3. A COnceptual Design ASsistant (CODAS)

      • J. E. Vinney, G. N. Blount, S. Noroozi

      Pages 89-98

4. DFM approaches I

   1. Integration of Product Design and Production System Design

      • Jorge F. Arinez, David S. Cochran

      Pages 99-108

   2. On the Determination of the Maximum Turnable State of a Part

      • Jarno Wilharms, Deba Dutta, Katta Murty, Georg Still

      Pages 109-118

   3. Optimal Degree of Parallelism and Integration in Design and Process Planning

      • Walter Eversheim, Iris Schulten

      Pages 119-128

5. Process knowledge and design decisions in product development

   1. Towards the inclusion of process related knowledge into very high level modeling entities

      • Imre Horváth, Aad P. Bremer, Joris S. M. Vergeest, Wilfred van der Vegte, György Kuczogi

      Pages 129-142

   2. Using advanced Petri-net for representation of decisions in the design process

      • Imre Horváth, Joris S. M. Vergeest, Willem G. Knoop

      Pages 143-154

   3. Structuring Principles for the Designer

      • Thomas D. Miller, Per Elgaard

      Pages 155-160

6. Collaborative design tools

   1. Collaborative design support using a meta-model approach and multi aspect modeling

      • Jan Rogier

      Pages 161-170

   2. Product Data Management (PDM) for collaborative Manufacturing System Design

      • Dieter Spath, Marco Lanza

      Pages 171-180

   3. Co-operation in design: indicators as supports for the discussion between product and process engineers

      • Daniel Brissaud, Henri Paris

      Pages 181-188

7. Design optimization tools

   1. Product architecture development enabling integrated re-design of mechanical products

      • R. E. Begelinger, E. Post, F. J. A. M. van Houten, H. J. J. Kals

      Pages 189-198

   2. Optimum Design of Inherently Compensated Aerostatic Thrust Bearings

      • Hua-Chih Huang, Farid Al-Bender, Hendrik Van Brussel

      Pages 199-208

   3. Mixed continuous and discrete catalog-based design modeling and optimization

      • Nicola Senin, David R. Wallace, Nicholas Borland

      Pages 209-218

8. Knowledge oriented approaches

   1. Knowledge processing for timely decision making in Design For X

      • Marcel Tichem, Barry O’Sullivan

      Pages 219-228

Design is a fundamental creative human activity. This certainly applies to the design of artefacts, the realisation of which has to meet many constraints and ever raising criteria. The world in which we live today, is enormously influenced by the human race. Over the last century, these artefacts have dramatically changed the living conditions of humans. The present wealth in very large parts of the world, depends on it. All the ideas for better and new artefacts brought forward by humans have gone through the minds of designers, who have turned them into feasible concepts and subsequently transformed them into realistic product models. The designers have been, still are, and will remain the leading 'change agents' in the physical world. Manufacturability of artefacts has always played a significant role in design. In pre­ industrial manufacturing, the blacksmith held the many design and realisation aspects of a product in one hand. The synthesis of the design and manufacturing aspects took, almost implicitly, place in the head of the man. All the knowledge and the skills were stored in one person. Education and training took place along the line of many years of apprenticeship. When the production volumes increased, -'assembling to measure' was no longer tolerated and production efficiency became essential - design, process planning, production planning and fabrication became separated concerns. The designers created their own world, separated from the production world. They argued that restrictions in the freedom of designing would badly influence their creativity in design.

• artificial intelligence
• conceptual design
• design
• design methods
• development
• modeling
• optimization
• product development

• Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Twente, Enschede, The Netherlands

  Hubert Kals, Fred Houten

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