Overview
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Hubert Kals
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Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Twente, Enschede, The Netherlands
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Fred Houten
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Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Twente, Enschede, The Netherlands
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Table of contents (42 papers)
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Keynotes
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- Hans Grabowski, Ralf-Stefan Lossack, El-Fathi El-Mejbri
Pages 47-56
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Conceptual design tools I
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- T. Wiegers, I. Horváth, J. S. M. Vergeest, E. Z. Opiyo, G. Kuczogi
Pages 69-78
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- Serge Tichkiewitch, Lionel Roucoules
Pages 79-88
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- J. E. Vinney, G. N. Blount, S. Noroozi
Pages 89-98
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DFM approaches I
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- Jorge F. Arinez, David S. Cochran
Pages 99-108
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- Jarno Wilharms, Deba Dutta, Katta Murty, Georg Still
Pages 109-118
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- Walter Eversheim, Iris Schulten
Pages 119-128
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Process knowledge and design decisions in product development
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- Imre Horváth, Aad P. Bremer, Joris S. M. Vergeest, Wilfred van der Vegte, György Kuczogi
Pages 129-142
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- Imre Horváth, Joris S. M. Vergeest, Willem G. Knoop
Pages 143-154
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- Thomas D. Miller, Per Elgaard
Pages 155-160
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Collaborative design tools
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- Dieter Spath, Marco Lanza
Pages 171-180
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- Daniel Brissaud, Henri Paris
Pages 181-188
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Design optimization tools
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- R. E. Begelinger, E. Post, F. J. A. M. van Houten, H. J. J. Kals
Pages 189-198
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- Hua-Chih Huang, Farid Al-Bender, Hendrik Van Brussel
Pages 199-208
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- Nicola Senin, David R. Wallace, Nicholas Borland
Pages 209-218
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Knowledge oriented approaches
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- Marcel Tichem, Barry O’Sullivan
Pages 219-228
About this book
Design is a fundamental creative human activity. This certainly applies to the design of artefacts, the realisation of which has to meet many constraints and ever raising criteria. The world in which we live today, is enormously influenced by the human race. Over the last century, these artefacts have dramatically changed the living conditions of humans. The present wealth in very large parts of the world, depends on it. All the ideas for better and new artefacts brought forward by humans have gone through the minds of designers, who have turned them into feasible concepts and subsequently transformed them into realistic product models. The designers have been, still are, and will remain the leading 'change agents' in the physical world. Manufacturability of artefacts has always played a significant role in design. In pre industrial manufacturing, the blacksmith held the many design and realisation aspects of a product in one hand. The synthesis of the design and manufacturing aspects took, almost implicitly, place in the head of the man. All the knowledge and the skills were stored in one person. Education and training took place along the line of many years of apprenticeship. When the production volumes increased, -'assembling to measure' was no longer tolerated and production efficiency became essential - design, process planning, production planning and fabrication became separated concerns. The designers created their own world, separated from the production world. They argued that restrictions in the freedom of designing would badly influence their creativity in design.
Editors and Affiliations
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Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Twente, Enschede, The Netherlands
Hubert Kals,
Fred Houten
