Cloud computing is changing the way industries and enterprises run their businesses. Cloud
manufacturing is emerging as an approach to transform the traditional manufacturing …

The main goal of manufacturing systems with make to order environments is to provide
products for unique requirements of customers. The demand for products can vary not only …

In the product development cycle several engineering tasks like design, process planning
and production planning have to be executed. The execution of these tasks mainly involves …

In order to reduce manufacturing cost and to improve the operational efficiency, some
factories in the sheet-metal-related manufacturing industry centralize the production and …

Automated manufacturability evaluation of a given design is a key requirement in realizing
complete integration of design and process planning. It would still be better to control the …

Cost control has to be integrated in the product development cycle because it requires
information from the entire product development cycle and it can generate information for …

There has been considerable activity regarding the current computer-aided design,
computer aided manufacturing, computer aided engineering, computer integrated …

For adequate Cost Engineering, information generated and affected by different engineering
tasks as well as effective communication are prerequisites. In the context of Concurrent …

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In previous chapters, we focused on investigating the 2D packing problem in terms of its
modeling and solving algorithms. In this chapter, we will introduce and discuss how packing …