| Preface | 6 |
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| Contents | 8 |
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| List of Contributors | 14 |
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| Part I Next Generation Design | 24 |
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| 1 Economic Growth, Business Innovation and Engineering Design --- Gunnar Sohlenius, Leif Clausson, and Ann Kjellberg | 26 |
| 1.1 Wealth and Conditions for Stable Economic Growth | 26 |
| 1.2 Total Effectiveness Management by Understanding Means | 29 |
| 1.3 Innovation and Production | 31 |
| 1.4 Sustainability through Learning and Competence Human Compentence World | 38 |
| 1.5 Industrial Company as a Business System | 41 |
| 1.6 Conclusions | 47 |
| 1.7 References | 48 |
| 2 Directions of Next Generation Product Development --- Tetsuo Tomiyama and Bart R. Meijer | 50 |
| 2.1 Introduction | 50 |
| 2.2 Analysis of the Production Development Paradigms | 51 |
| 2.3 Future Directions of Product Development | 54 |
| 2.4 From Knowledge Integration to Knowledge Fusion | 56 |
| 2.5 Conclusions | 57 |
| 2.6 References | 58 |
| 3 What-if Design as an Integrative Method in Product Design --- Fred van Houten, and Eric Lutters | 59 |
| 3.1 Introduction | 60 |
| 3.2 Outline of a System for What-if Design | 61 |
| 3.3 Information as the Basis for the Development Product Life Cycle | 62 |
| 3.5 Working Principles of What-if Design | 64 |
| 3.6 Application and Prospects | 67 |
| 3.7 Concluding Remarks | 68 |
| 3.8 References | 69 |
| 4 Self Organization in Design --- Bart R. Meijer | 70 |
| 4.1 Introduction | 70 |
| 4.2 Concepts of Self Organization | 71 |
| 4.3 Set-based Concurrent Engineering | 76 |
| 4.4 Evolutionary Organization of Design Processes | 78 |
| 4.5 Discussion and Conclusions | 79 |
| 4.6. References | 79 |
| 5 Towards a Design Methodology for Self-optimizing Systems --- Jürgen Gausemeier, Ursula Frank, Andreas Schmidt, and Daniel Steffen | 81 |
| 5.1 Introduction | 81 |
| 5.2 Self-optimizing Systems | 82 |
| 5.3 Design Methodology for Self-optimizing Systems | 84 |
| 5.4 Conclusion | 90 |
| 5.5 Acknowledgement | 91 |
| 5.6 References | 91 |
| Part II Design Knowledge and Functional Design | 92 |
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| 6 Reusing Design Knowledge --- Saeema Ahmed, and Ken Wallace | 93 |
| 6.1 Introduction | 93 |
| 6.2 Research Method | 94 |
| 6.3 Findings | 97 |
| 6.4 Indexing Method | 102 |
| 6.5 Key Conclusions | 103 |
| 6.6 Acknowledgements | 103 |
| 6.7 References | 103 |
| 7 Structural and Functional Analysis for Assemblies --- Hugo Falgarone, and Nicolas Chevassus | 105 |
| 7.1 Industrial Background | 105 |
| 7.2 Method for Systemic Analysis of Structural Assemblies | 106 |
| 7.3 Assembly Modeling and Analysis | 108 |
| 7.4 GAIA Software for Systemic Analysis of Assemblies | 112 |
| 7.5 Benefits | 113 |
| 7.6 Conclusion | 113 |
| 7.7 References | 114 |
| 8 Knowledge Management for a Cooperative Design System --- Serge Tichkiewitch, Bruno Radulescu, George Dragoï, and Kusol Pimapunsri | 115 |
| 8.1 Introduction | 115 |
| 8.2 One of the Key Technologies for 2005 | 117 |
| 8.3 Knowledge Management | 119 |
| 8.4 Conclusion | 124 |
| 8.5 References | 124 |
| Part III Innovative and Conceptual Design | 126 |
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| 9 AdaptEx: Extending Product Life Cycles through Strategic Product Upgrades --- Jeff C. Sand, and Peihua Gu | 127 |
| 9.1 Introduction | 128 |
| 9.2 The Need for Adaptive Design | 128 |
| 9.3 AdaptEx for Large Scale Engineering Systems | 130 |
| 9.4 Establishing the AdaptEx Process | 131 |
| 9.5 Concluding Remarks | 135 |
| 9.6 Acknowledgements | 135 |
| 9.7 References | 135 |
| 10 Product Genetic Engineering --- Kezheng Huang, Hongwu Chen, Yandong Wang, Zhengjun Song, and Liangmin Lv | 136 |
| 10.1 Introduction | 136 |
| 10.2 Product Growth Design Platform | 138 |
| 10.3 Concept of Product Genome | 140 |
| 10.4 Product Genetic Engineering | 143 |
| 10.5 PGE-DARFAD System Framework | 144 |
| 10.6 Conclusions | 146 |
| 10.7 References | 146 |
| 11 Gene Engineering-based Innovation of Manufactured Products --- Ke-Zhang Chen, Xin-An Feng, and Xiao-Chuan Chen | 148 |
| 11.1 Introduction | 148 |
| 11.2 Gene Engineering-based Design Method for Product Innovation | 149 |
| 11.3 Contents and Data Structure of Virtual Chromosomes of Manufactured Products | 151 |
| 11.4 Database Structure for the Virtual Chromosomes of Manufactured Products | 153 |
| 11.5 An Example | 156 |
| 11.6 Conclusions | 158 |
| 11.7 Acknowledgements | 158 |
| 11.8 References | 159 |
| 12 Use of Constraint Programming for Design --- Bernard Yannou, and Ghassen Harmel | 160 |
| 12.1 Introduction | 161 |
| 12.2 The Principles of CP | 162 |
| 12.3 The Solving Process of CP | 164 |
| 12.4 The Consistency Techniques | 167 |
| 12.5 Consistency of Design Spaces | 168 |
| 12.6 Influence of Splitting Granularity | 170 |
| 12.7 Conclusions | 170 |
| 12.8 References | 171 |
| 13 Model Infrastructures and Human Interaction in a Stereo Table Environment --- Torsten Kjellberg, Christoffer Lindfors, Mattias Larsson, and Jonny Gustafsson | 173 |
| 13.1 Introduction | 173 |
| 13.2 Principles of the Interaction Stereo Table | 175 |
| 13.3 Integration of Man Model with Man-to-Man Interaction | 175 |
| 13.4 Man-model Interaction in an Interaction Table Environment | 176 |
| 13.5 Interaction Stereo Table in a Virtual Co-located Meeting | 177 |
| 13.6 Model-based Applications | 177 |
| 13.7 Conclusion | 179 |
| 13.8 Acknowledgments | 180 |
| 13.9 References | 181 |
| 14 Inventive Design Applied to Injection Molding --- Thomas Eltzer, Denis Cavallucci, Nikolaï Khomenkho, Philippe Lutz, and
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