Collaborative Product Design and Manufacturing Methodologies and Applications [Paperback]

Collaborative Product Design and Manufacturing Methodologies and Applications introduces a wide spectrum of collaborative engineering issues in design and manufacturing. It offers state-of-the-art chapters written by international experts from academia and industry, and reflects the most up-to-date R & D work and applications, especially those from the last three to five years. The book will serve as an essential reference for academics, upper-level undergraduate and graduate students and practicing professionals.

An Adaptable Service-based Framework for Distributed Service Realization A Web-based Intelligent Collaborative System for Engineering Design A Shared VE for Collaborative Product Development in Manufacturing Enterprises A Plug-and-Play Computing Environment for Collaborative Product Design and Manufacturing across an Extended Enterprise Cooperative Design in Building Construction A Fine-grain and Feature-oriented Product Database for Collaborative Engineering A Web-based Framework for Distributed and Collaborative Manufacturing of Engineering Parts Wise-ShopFloor: A Portal toward Collaborative Manufacturing Real-time Distributed Shop Floor Scheduling: An Agent-based Service-oriented Framework Leveraging Design Process Related Intellectual Capital  A Key to Enhancing Enterprise Agility Manufacturing Information Organization in Product Lifecycle Management Semantic Interoperability to Support Collaborative Product Development A Proposal of Distributed Virtual Factory for Collaborative Production

W. D. Li obtained his PhD degree from the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the National University of Singapore in January 2002. He taught at Xidian University (China) as a lecturer from 1995-1998. From 2001  June 2005, he was a research scientist at the Singapore Institute of Manufacturing Technology. From July 2005, he has worked at the IMRC (Innovative Manufacturing Research Centre) at the Uló„