Nowadays the computer application areas in production and engineering have no boundary as to penetrating all human activities from management, research and development, design, specification to calculation, planning, manufacturing, production control, quality assurance, monitoring and maintenance. The book gets significant as bringing forth an understanding of, helping it be shared, how information needs be modelled, communicated, stored, and accessed all over the enterprise, starting with the customer's requirements definition and proceeding on to product planning, conceptual product, process, materials, manufacturing system design, prototype validation, detailed pre production planning, and all life cycle aspects from delivery to disposal/recycle. Indeed, the book filled in the application designers' waiting horizon over engineering and manufacturing.
edited by Andrew Kusiak
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