Intelligent Design And Manufacturing

Focuses on design and manufacturing and a variety of issues pertinent to successful techniques involving concurrent engineering. Considers product design and manufacturing constraints simultaneously, emphasizing the consideration of every element of the product's life cycle from concept through disposal. Examines such areas as quality, cost, scheduling and user needs. Design and manufacturing problems are thoroughly discussed and solutions are given by using numerous modern applications and implements, including basic artificial intelligence tools.

Agent Technology, or Agent-Based Approaches, is a new paradigm for developing software applications. It has been hailed as 'the next significant breakthrough in software development', and 'the new revolution in software' after object technology or object-oriented programming. In this context, an agent is a computer system which is capable of act

Focuses on solutions to problems in design and manufacturing engineering, presenting a variety of problem solving approaches and practical examples. Covers neural networks and other artificial intelligence tools, computational models for conceptual design, desirable functionalities of intelligent CA

Von der Produktidee über den Prototyp und die Modellsimulation bis zur Analyse: Dieser Band hilft Entwicklern und Designern beim Verständnis aller Abläufe im Zuge des Designs neuer Produkte, Prozesse und Systeme. Eine Fülle von Beispielen industrieller Anwendungen, realer Probleme und zugehöriger Lösungen hilft beim Vertiefen und Umsetzen des Stoffes. (05/00)

The introduction of artificial intelligence, neural networks, and fuzzy logic into industry has given a new perspective to manufacturing processes in the U.S. and abroad. To help readers keep pace, this book addresses topics of intelligent manufacturing from a variety of theoretical, empirical, design, and implementation perspectives.

Quality control is changing along with the manufacturing environment. A series of revolutionary changes will occur in management contents, methods, capabilities, and real-time effectiveness and efficiency of management. As an essential factor in intelligent manufacturing, quality control systems require real and comprehensive innovation. Focused on new trends and developments in quality control from a worldwide perspective, this book presents the latest information on novel approaches in quality control. Its thirteen chapters cover three topics: intelligent manufacturing, robust design, and control charts.

Direct Engineering (DE) is the creation of a product development cycle into a single, unified process. The design process in most industries is an evolutionary one (i.e., incremental changes to some existing design). DE is a manufacturing process that seeks to improve the design processes by providing complete archival documentation of existing designs. It uses three-dimensional geometric models with integrated manufacturing information throughout the design process. DE reduces the design cycle, and the variety and number of engineering changes. This process decreases the design cycle time, increases productivity, and provides a higher quality product. The required technologies and methodologies that will support the development of the DE environment are: (1) product representation using feature-based modeling; (2) knowledge-based applications that will support the entire product development cycle; (3) an engineering environment implemented around distributed computing and object-oriented systems; (4) direct manufacturing techniques using rapid prototyping. Direct Engineering: Toward Intelligent Manufacturing addresses the following recent topics related to the development, implementation, and integration of the DE environment: (1) the current scope of the research in intelligent manufacturing; (2) the results of the technologies and tools developed for integrated product and process designs, and (3) examination of the methodologies and algorithms used for the implementation of direct engineering.