The Future of Product Development

Product development is one of the most important drivers of innovation. Methods, procedures and systems evoke, enable and support innovation. The papers presented in this book, show that answers can only be composed out of a variety of solutions where psychological, economical and technical research results are taken into account.

The proceedings represent trends in Product Development concerning industrial users and vendors as well as scientific research aspects.

The following topics are covered: Design Theory, Product Design, Requirements, Collaborative Engineering, Complex Design, Mechatronics, Reverse Engineering, Virtual Prototyping, CAE, KBE and PLM.

Represent the state of the art developments in CIRP Life Cycle Engineering for Product Development concerning industrial, vendors' and scientific research aspects Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

Autorentext
Prof. Dr.-Ing. F.-L. Krause is head of the division "Virtual Product Creation" at the Fraunhofer Institute for Production Systems and Design Technology (IPK) in Berlin. He also has a chair for "Industrial Information Technology" at the Institute for Machine Tools and Factory Management at the Technical University of Berlin.

Inhalt
Introduction.- Industrial Perspective.- Vendor View.- Scientific Community (Design Theory, Product Development, CAE Mechatronics, Complexity PLM Project Management Knowledge processing Collaborative Engineering, Product related national and international).