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The paper presents an application of Augmented Reality to support collective product development among members of different domains across the product development including end users. Portable software tool that works on smart devices (Smartphone, Tablet, laptop, PCs) is developed for the collaborative product development using Augmented Reality to nurture, maintain and increase a company's market share by fulfilling consumer's demand. Portable software tool is presented with the proposed methodology for a collaborative platform to work on mobile devices to capture the synergistic dynamics and to customize and interrelate with the product in customer(s) own environment. The product shown to the customer using the developed tool, may be customizable as per the customers' requirement in his/her own environment remotely and to record comments. The recorded customization and comments are then stored in the database and used in the product development and enhancement of the product. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Wear is one of the emerging failures of the die casting industries. Current market demands that the final product should be accurate or close to accurate, with minimum wear on machine tools. A number of factors, such as materials, design aspects and the manufacturing process, have led to wear. In this paper, several factors affecting the tool and die wear mechanism are investigated, in particular in the die casting industry, in order to reduce production costs with good quality of finished products. This paper is aimed at focusing on recent developments in the field of tribological wear and providing researchers, scientists, manufacturers, etc. with adequate knowledge on wear. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]