Concurrent Engineering: Automation, Tools, and Techniques

Presents a top-down approach to the design, development, testing and recyclability of products, components and systems across a wide range of industries. Starting with the desired result and working back through the details, it shows how to produce goods, taking into account the challenges of actual manufacture, what the reliability requirements should be, quality control, associated costs, customer needs and more. Additional features include case studies and team negotiating. Also well-illustrated with figures, photographs, charts and tables and includes an extensive bibliography.

Presents a top-down approach to the design, development, testing and recyclability of products, components and systems across a wide range of industries. Starting with the desired result and working back through the details, it shows how to produce goods, taking into account the challenges of actual manufacture, what the reliability requirements should be, quality control, associated costs, customer needs and more. Additional features include case studies and team negotiating. Also well-illustrated with figures, photographs, charts and tables and includes an extensive bibliography.

Booknews

Illustrates how to design products, components or systems, across a wide range of industries, while taking into account such constraints as the ability to manufacture, reliability requirements, quality, cost and customer needs. In-depth treatment of how the consequences of various technical solutions are assessed in all life-cycle phases of a product, automatic idealization control for analysis, intelligent interactive CAD systems with real-time constraint checking, and methodology for simplification of the design process are included. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)