Product design Books

This book is a compilation of research accomplishments in the fields of modeling, simulation, and their applications, as presented at AsiaSim 2011 (Asia Simulation Conference 2011). The conference, held in Seoul, Korea,...

Characterisation: this volume presents the latest contribution to the theory and practice of modern robotics given by the world recognised scientists from Australia, Canada, Europe, Japan and USA.

This book focuses on the development of multi-variant products using modular product structures and thus addresses the reduction of complexity from a product development perspective. These modular product structures allow for a greater variety of demand...

Every year, the Technical University of Munich, the Universität der Bundeswehr München, and the University of Applied Sciences in Munich invite researchers and practitioners to join the Munich Symposium on Lightweight Design. Experts from industry and...

Selective Laser Melting (SLM), also referred to as Laser Powder Bed Fusion (L-PBF), offers significant advantages for the manufacturing of complex, high-quality parts. However, its market share is still small compared to conventional manufacturing...

Übersicht über die Methode.- Kundenanforderungen und Priorisierung am Beispiel eines Produktes.- Wettbewerbsvergleich am Beispiel eines Produktes (Kaffemaschine).- Festlegen der Produktmerkmale am Beispiel eines Produktes (Kaffeemaschine).-...

Today, digital technologies represent an absolute must when it comes to creating new products and factories. However, day-to-day product development and manufacturing engineering operations have still only unlocked roughly fifty percent of the "digital...

The use of modular product architectures can significantly increase the efficiency in manufacturing companies. Various modularization methods are used in the development of these architectures, but they always result in different architecture...

The book provides suggestions on how to start using bionic optimization methods, including pseudo-code examples of each of the important approaches and outlines of how to improve them. The most efficient methods for accelerating the studies are discussed...

Innovative processes for the development of products and services are more and more considered as an organisational capability, which is recognised to be increasingly important for business success in today's competitive environment. However, management...

Die Konstruktion bestimmt den Entwurf eines Bauwerkes neben der Funktion, der Wirtschaftlichkeit und der formalen Gestaltung als gleich­ berechtigte Komponente. Mitwirkende Faktoren sind darüber hinaus örtliche Verhältnisse,...

Frank Neumann focuses on establishing a theoretical basis that allows a description of the interplay between individual and collective processes in product development. For this purpose, he introduces the integrated descriptive model of knowledge...

Der Titel des Buches bedarf der Erkliimng: Mit der Wahl dieses Titels folgt der Verfasser der in den sechziger Jahren im deutschen Sprachraum haupt­ sachlich von Instituten der Mechanik unterstiitzten Wortwahl, zeitlich...

Mit diesem Buch wird das Konstruieren, eine der Hauptaufgaben des Ingenieurs, auf ein wissenschaftliches Fundament gestellt. Dies geschieht inerster Linie mit dem Ziel, Studenten von Universit{ten und Fachhochschulen ...

Seit der ersten Auflage dieses Buches hat der Computer Einzug gehalten und die Auslegung und Konstruktion auch der Umlaufgetriebe weitgehend erleichtert. Da­ bei erwies sich das damals gewählte System der einheitlichen...

This book of proceedings is the synthesis of all the papers, including keynotes presented during the 20th CIRP Design conference. The book is structured with respect to several topics, in fact the main topics that serve at structuring the program. For...

This book is about optimization techniques and is subdivided into two parts. In the first part a wide overview on optimization theory is presented. Optimization is presented as being composed of five topics, namely: design of experiment, response surface...

This book presents the results of several years' research work on how to characterize complexity in engineering design with a specific regard to dependency modeling. The 52 complexity metrics that are presented show different facets of how complexity...

This book discusses the architecture, functioning, and biomechanics of the human body, its bones, joints, muscles, tendons, and ligaments. The book explains energy extraction from food and drink, what efforts the body is capable of, and how our efforts...

This book reflects the shift in design paradigm in automobile industry. It presents future innovations, often referred as "automotive systems engineering". These cause fundamental innovations in the field of driver assistance systems and...

The 19th CIRP Conference on Life Cycle Engineering continues a strong tradition of scientific meetings in the areas of sustainability and engineering within the community of the International Academy for Production Engineering (CIRP). The focus of the...

Engineers need to acquire "Back-of-the-Envelope" survival skills to obtain rough quantitative answers to real-world problems, particularly when working on projects with enormous complexity and very limited resources. In the case studies treated in this...

Systems engineering is a mandatory approach in some industries, and is gaining wider acceptance for complex projects in general. However, under the imperative of delivering these projects on time and within budget, the focus has been mainly on the...

The theory of probability and mathematical statistics is becoming an indispensable discipline in many branches of science and engineering. This is caused by increasing significance of various uncertainties affecting performance of complex technological...

The global crisis the automotive industry has slipped into over the second half of 2008 has set a fierce spotlight not only on which cars are the right ones to bring to the market but also on how these cars are developed. Be it OEMs developing new...

Pulsed-Power Systems describes the physical and technical foundations for the production and application of high-voltage pulses of very high-power and high-energy character. In the initial chapters, it addresses materials, components and the most common...

The focus of this book is the modeling of the location of economic activities, measured in terms of employment, in land-use and transportation systems. These measures are key inputs to models at intra-urban scales of the flows of persons and goods for...

The collection of papers in this book comprises the proceedings of the 23rd CIRP Design Conference held between March 11th and March 13th 2013 at the Ruhr-Universität Bochum in Germany. The event was organized in cooperation...

This book generalizes fuzzy logic systems for different types of uncertainty, including- semantic ambiguity resulting from limited perception or lack of knowledge about exact membership functions- lack of attributes or granularity arising from...

Climbing robot is a challenging research topic that has gained much attention from researchers. Most of the robots reported in the literature are designed to climb on manmade structures, but seldom robots are designed for climbing natural environment...

Intelligent engineering systems try to replicate fundamental abilities of humans and nature in order to achieve sufficient progress in solving complex problems. In an ideal case multi-disciplinary applications of different...

We describe in this book, bio-inspired models and applications of hybrid intel- gent systems using soft computing techniques for image analysis and pattern r- ognition based on biometrics and other information sources. Soft Computing (SC) consists of...

By incorporating biologically-inspired functions into ICT, various types of new-generation information and communication systems can be created. Just some example of areas already benefiting from such design inspiration are...

In the last few decades, much research work was conducted to improve ship structure analysis and design. Most of the efforts were directed to improve the strength of hull girder and to use the method of finite element analysis more efficiently and...

to Computation.- Design Computation.- Verification Computation.

The automotive industry faces constant pressure to reduce development costs and time while still increasing vehicle quality. To meet this challenge, engineers and researchers in both science and industry are developing effective strategies and flexible...

Integrated Innovation Management.- The InnovationRoadMap Methodology.- Methods Description.- Case studies.

Fundamentals.- Philosophy of Hull Structure Design.- Structural Design Loads.- Strength Evaluation.- Hull Structure Design System.- Progress in Ship Design.- Materials.- Finite Element Method.- Theory.- Design of Beams.- Design of Girders.- Damage of...

Bio-Inspired Computational Intelligence for the Hardware of Adaptive Systems.- Advanced Hardware Implementation of the Computational Intelligence and Intelligent Technologies.- Bio-Inspired Analogue and Digital Circuits and Their Applications.

Part A Fundamentals of ferrous materials A.1 Constitution A.1.1 Pure Iron A.1.2 Iron-carbon A.1.3 Iron alloys A.2 Microstructure A.2.1 Near-equilibrium structures A.2.2 Non-equilibrium structures A.2.3 Morphology of cementite and graphite A.3 Heat...

For successful innovation in business the responsible managers need a consistent view of the individual processes as well as an assessment of key projects in all phases of the development. Generating new ideas, fast examination of its feasibility...

Ergonomisch gestaltete Medizintechnik führt zu effizienteren Arbeitsabläufen, erhöht die Patientensicherheit und reduziert die Arbeitsbelastung. Das Buch erläutert, wie Medizintechnik an die Bedürfnisse der Nutzer und Anwender angepasst werden kann...

Das Buch führt umfassend in das Fachgebiet ein. Es behandelt Werkstoffkunde, Elastostatik, Festigkeitslehre, Entwurfsmethoden und Verbindungstechniken. Im Vordergrund stehen die Verfahren zur Dimensionierung, die wichtigsten...

Anschaulich, lückenlos, theoretisch fundiert: dieses Nachschlagewerk und Arbeitsbuch in 3., aktualisierter und erweiterter Auflage. Das notwendige Rüstzeug zur (elasto-)kinematisch einwandfreien Entwicklung für Praktiker: Auf...

Innovativer Prototyp: Die renommierten Experten Hans-Jörg Bullinger und Bernd Bertsche bieten hier neueste Ergebnisse zur "Entwicklung und Erprobung innovativer Produkte - Rapid Prototyping" (Sonderforschungsbereich 374). Alle...

A look at important new tools and algorithms for future product modeling systems, based on a seminar at the International Conference and Research Center for Computer Science, Schloß Dagstuhl, Germany, presented by ...