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Byline: OM Gupta Mouser Electronics provides a wealth of services and tools to help engineers and purchasing professionals find the right products for their designs. These including a resource site [...]

CLAY HAS EXISTED SINCE THE DAWN OF CIVILIZATION and, ever since, artists have found limitless ways to maximize its handmade capabilities. If you are a purist in this regard, stop [...]

To link to full-text access for this article, visit this link: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.compind.2009.03.001 Byline: Jian Xun Wang (a), Ming Xi Tang (a), Lin Nan Song (b), Shou Qiang Jiang (b) Keywords: Mutlit-agent system; Collaborative design; Product design management; Product data modelling; Product design process modelling; Solid modelling Abstract: The evolution of computer science and technology has brought new opportunities for multidisciplinary designers and engineers to collaborate with each other in a concurrent and coordinated manner. The development of computational agents with unified data structures and software protocols contributes to the establishment of a new way of working in collaborative design, which is increasingly becoming an international practice. In this paper, based on the analysis of the dynamic nature of collaborative design process, a new framework for collaborative design is described. This framework adopts an agent-based approach and relocates designers, managers, systems, and the supporting agents in a unified knowledge representation scheme for product design. In order to model the constantly evolving design process and the rationales resulted from design collaboration, a Collaborative Product Data Model (CPDM) and a constraint-based Collaborative Design Process Model (CDPM) are proposed to facilitate the management and coordination of the collaborative design process as well as design knowledge management. A prototype system of the proposed framework is implemented and its feasibility is evaluated using a real design scenario whose objective is designing a set of dining table and chairs. Author Affiliation: (a) School of Design, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong (b) Institute of Textile and Clothing, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong Article History: Received 18 September 2006; Revised 23 September 2008; Accepted 13 March 2009

To link to full-text access for this article, visit this link: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.compind.2006.04.017 Byline: Kaiyu Dai, Yinsheng Li, Jin Han, Xiaohua Lu, Shensheng Zhang Keywords: Three dimensions; Interactive customization; Integrated e-Commerce system Abstract: This paper presents an, interactive, three-dimensional, Web-based and integrated e-Commerce system. This system enforces businesses to implement mass customization, through integration with product design environments on PDM/PLM systems. Through this system, consumers, partners or distributors, can take part in product design and get through their ideas, online and visually, to suppliers. With custom order information, suppliers produce or assembly to meet their customers' demands as precisely and efficiently. We also developed a toolkit to configure the custom product and construct such an interactive website automatically through back PDM/PLM system. Several concerns on this system have been addressed, including its applicable business models, applied techniques, and implementation issues in product data processing, traffic-reduced transportation mechanism of three-dimensional product data, and three-dimensional interaction. A commercial e-Commerce system has been functional and ready for apparel, automobile and mobile phones. Author Affiliation: Software School, Fudan University, 220 Handan Road, Shanghai 200433, PR China Article History: Accepted 27 April 2006

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