Automated feature recognition (AFR) has provided the greatest contribution to fully
automated CAPP system development. The objective of this paper is to review various …

Initially developed for geometric representation, feature modeling has been applied in
product design and manufacturing with great success. With the growth of computer-aided …

With widely used concurrent and collaborative engineering technologies, the validity and
consistency of product information become important. In order to establish the state of the …

To enable next generation CAD tools to effectively support top-down design of products, a
top-down assembly design process is refined from the traditional product design process to …

The manufacturing industry is evolving and starting to use three-dimensional (3D) models as
the central knowledge artifact for product data and product definition, or what is known as …

In a continuing quest to decrease the time interval between conceptualisation of a product
and its first production, the use of information technology in design, analysis and …

CAD modelling can be referred to as the process of generating an integrated multiple view
model as a representation of multiple views of engineering design. In many situations, a …

Product development requires sharing information of a diverse nature between several
actors. Since the new products resulting from this process often require assembly as part of …

Currently, designers often pay little attention to integrated innovation during the design
process of products. In addition, the product assistance design systems mainly focus on the …

Nowadays, companies have to cope with numerous constraints at organisational and
technical levels in order to improve their competitiveness edges such as productivity …