... of design information. cost reduction design for manufacture formal specification knowledge management ontologies (artificial intelligence) product customisation product design 22 10 2008 17 11 2009 09 02 2010 09 02 2010 2010 American Society of Mechanical...

... 30 12 2009 cost reduction design engineering maintenance engineering reliability With the use of new technologies, engineering systems have become increasingly complex, and so has the risk of failure ( 1 2 ). To this end, reliability-based design (RBD) has become a major task...

... is independent of the proposed method. It may be difficult, if not impossible, to obtain exact production costs, especially for competing product families (external benchmarking); however, dedicated software can help obtain good cost estimates (e.g., Design for Manufacturing and Assembly cost reduction tools 1...

... distribution for efficient estimation of reliability. 19 09 2005 23 02 2006 laminates cost reduction structural engineering design for quality reliability quality control failure analysis statistical distributions For systems composed of multiple components, system failure...

... for manufacture product design product development decision making cost reduction profitability 24 02 2005 14 12 2005 2006 American Society of Mechanical Engineers ...

... is attributable to its expensive iterative nature. The framework presented in this paper improves a design project via obtaining an optimum sequence of its activities that minimizes total time and cost. 16 03 2005 12 11 2005 time to market product life cycle management risk analysis cost...

... industrial economics cost reduction genetic algorithms mechanical products automotive components design engineering economies of scale minimisation Assembly Synthesis Design for Modularity Multiobjective Optimization Mechanical products are very rarely monolithic; one of the reasons...