Intensification of service and knowledge contents within product life cycles is considered
crucial for dematerialization, in particular, to design optimal product-service systems from the …

Manufacturing globalization and sustainable development compel production enterprises to
continuously seek improvements in their products' performance, customization …

This paper reviews concurrent engineering from the viewpoint of engineering design
research., Concurrent engineering aims at eliminating unnecessary changes and redesigns …

A major challenge of the current decade is rationalising the consumption of all our material
and energy resources to encourage a sustainable economy. One of the solutions for …

One of the design problems of B2C products results from their increasingly short lifespan.
The technological changes, associated with the evolutions of use, lead the companies …

Determining configuration of production facilities is a difficult problem. To solve this problem,
the authors introduce the Cellular Manufacturing System as a rapid prototyping and strategic …

To reduce material and energy consumption and amount of disposal, prolongment of
product's lifetime is quite promising. Such longer-life products should have functional …

This paper describes an in-progress project to develop a framework for holistic life cycle
design. Environmentally-conscious design requires the balance of a variety of deeply …

One of the challenges of this decade is to rationalize the consumption of global resources
while increasing economic activity. Remanufacturing is an option to this challenge; however …

Model-Based Automatic Generation of Sequence- Control Programs from Design Information
Page 1 QUALITATIVEREASONING Model-Based Automatic Generation of SequenceControl …