Short description:

Collaborative Engineering: Theory and Practice offers insights into the methods and techniques involved in implementing a systematic approach to the integrated, concurrent design of products and related processes, including manufacturing, product service and support. The approach discussed here will help developers consider all elements of the product life cycle from conception through disposal, including quality, cost, schedule, and user requirements.

Drawing upon years of practical experience and the collective knowledge of a distinguished list of contributors, Ali Kamrani and Emad Abouel Nasr, provide a state-of-the-art discussion on collaborative engineering and discuss the following:

• Requirements for an open and collaborative manufacturing environment and the tools and techniques needed


• Template-based integrated product development cycles


• Six Sigma as a methodology to manage quality control within a given production cycle


• Supply Chain Workflow Modeling


• CAD, CIM and Rapid manufacturing


• Simulation based optimization techniques


• Manufacturing complexity analysis

Collaborative Engineering: Theory and Practice is a must have book for industrial engineers in both industry and academia who specialize in product development and supply chain management.

Long description:

Collaborative Engineering (CE) is the systematic approach to the integrated, concurrent design of products and related processes, including manufacturing, product service and support. This approach is intended to cause the developers to consider all elements of the product life cycle from conception through disposal, including quality, cost, schedule, and user requirements. The objective of Collaborative Engineering is to reduce the system/product development cycle time through a better integration of resources, activities and processes.

Collaborative Engineering: Theory and Practice offers insights into the methods and techniques that enable implementing a Collaborative Engineering concept on product design by integrating capabilities for intelligent information support and group decision-making utilizing a common enterprise network model and knowledge interface through shared ontologies.

The book is also a collection of the latest applied methods and technology from selected experts in this area which will be structured in a way useful in assisting and structuring the course.

Table of Contents:

Collaborative Design Approach in Product Design and Development.- Template-Based Integrated Design: A Case Study.- Six Sigma: Continuous Improvement Toward Excellence.- Supply Chain Workflow Modeling Using Ontologies.- Data-Mining Process Overview.- Intelligent Design and Manufacturing.- Rapid Manufacturing.- Simulation-Based Optimization: A Case Study for Airline's Cargo Service Call Center.- Robotics and Autonomous Robots.- Modular Design.- Manufacturing Complexity Analysis: A Simulation-Based Methodology.- Designing Cellular Manufacturing for Next Generation Production Systems.