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The objective of this book is to organize and document the technical, analytical, and practical aspects of present-day apple processing. No collected works have been published on processed apple products for more than thirty years. During that time many changes have taken place in...

This textbook describes strategic product and service planning, introducing the concept of innovation. Linear models of product development are presented, and the product concept and system architecture generation are introduced. The responsiveness of the development process to uncertainty and complexity is covered, as well...

Globalisation of the world's economy is leading to rapid change and uncertainties in society, politics and markets. Product design strategies need to respond to these developments. "Product Concept Design" meets the needs and expectations of academia and practitioners working in design by focussing on...

Globalisation of the world's economy is leading to rapid change and uncertainties in society, politics and markets. Product design strategies need to respond to these developments. "Product Concept Design" meets the needs and expectations of academia and practitioners working in design by focussing on...

For the majority of industrial companies, customizing products and services is among the most critical means to deliver true customer value and achieve superior competitive advantage. The challenge is not to customize products and services in itself, but to do it in a profitable...

For the majority of industrial companies, customizing products and services is among the most critical means to deliver true customer value and achieve superior competitive advantage. The challenge is not to customize products and services in itself, but to do it in a profitable...

Interest in product data exchange and interfaces in the CAD/CAM area is steadi- ly growing. The rapidly increasing graphics applications in engineering and sci- ence has led to a great variety of heterogeneous hardware and software products. This has become a major obstacle in...

Modular products are products that fulfill various overall functions through the combination of distinct building blocks or modules, in the sense that the overall function performed by the product can be divided into sub-functions that can be implemented by different modules or components. An...

The current marketplace is undergoing an accelerated pace of change that challenges corporations to innovate new techniques to respond rapidly to an ever-changing environment. At the center of this changing environment is a new generation of empowered buyers (customers) equipped with fast- evolving technologies...

Modular products are products that fulfill various overall functions through the combination of distinct building blocks or modules, in the sense that the overall function performed by the product can be divided into sub-functions that can be implemented by different modules or components. An...

With consumer goods, as weil as consumer durables, the market is obscured because of product differentiation, in for example, the use, of trade marks, and the advertising and get-up of products, and this presents arealproblern in the protection of consumers. After a general demarcation...

This book contains an edited version of the lectures and selected contributions presented during the Advanced Summer Institute on "Product Engineering: Eco-Design, Technologies and Green Energy" organized at the st Transilvania University of Brasov (Romania) in the period 14-21 of July 2004. The Advanced...

This book contains an edited version of the lectures and selected contributions presented during the Advanced Summer Institute on "Product Engineering: Eco-Design, Technologies and Green Energy" organized at the st Transilvania University of Brasov (Romania) in the period 14-21 of July 2004. The Advanced...

This book contains an edited version of the lectures and selected contri- tions presented during the Advanced Summer Institute on "Product Engine- ing: Tools and Methods based on Virtual Reality" organized at Chania th th (Greece) in the period 30 May-6 June 2007. The...

This book contains an edited version of the lectures and selected contri- tions presented during the Advanced Summer Institute on "Product Engine- ing: Tools and Methods based on Virtual Reality" organized at Chania th th (Greece) in the period 30 May-6 June 2007. The...

On behalf of the PROFES organizing committee we would like to welcome you to the 4th International Conference on Product Focused Software Process Impro- ment (PROFES 2002) in Rovaniemi, Finland. The conference was held on the Arctic Circle in exotic Lapland under the Northern...

On behalf of the PROFES organizing committee we are proud to present to you the proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Product Focused Software Process Improvement (PROFES 2004), held in Kansai Science City, Japan. Since 1999, PROFES has established itself as one of...

On behalf of the PROFES Organizing Committee we are proud to present to you the proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Product Focused Software Process Improvement (PROFES 2005), held in Oulu, Finland. Since 1999, PROFES has established itself as one of the recognized...

The 2nd International Conference on Product Focused Software Process - provement(PROFES2000)continuedthesuccessofthePROFES'99conference. It was organized in Oulu, Finland, June 20-22, 2000. The PROFES conference has its roots in the PROFES Esprit project (http: //www.ele.vtt.?/profes/), but by 1999 it had already evolved into a full-?edged general...

The Third International Conference on Product Focused Software Process Improvement (PROFES 2001) continued the success of the PROFES'99 and PROFES 2000 conferences. PROFES 2001 was organized in Kaiserslautern, Germany, September 10 13, 2001. The PROFES conference has its roots in the PROFES Esprit project...

Prefaced by Björn Stigson, President of the World Business Council for Sustainable Development, this book is one of the few that treats this topic by putting representatives of industry at centre stage. The book systematically addresses the drivers, the tools, and sector-specific elements that...

Prefaced by Björn Stigson, President of the World Business Council for Sustainable Development, this book is one of the few that treats this topic by putting representatives of industry at centre stage. The book systematically addresses the drivers, the tools, and sector-specific elements that...

This book offers new insights into the complex set of activities and decisions of product innovation management. It provides concepts, methods, and tools that can help accelerate the introduction of successful products to the market in an increasingly competitive and changing business landscape. It...

Product Integrity and Reliability in Design is intended to serve either as a text for graduate students or as a reference for practicing engineers. The book develops the root-cause approach to reliability - often referred to as "physics of failure" in the reliability engineering...

The significance of product lifecycle management (PLM - Product Lifecycle Management, formerly referred to, in a narrower frame of reference, as PDM - Product Data Management) is increasing, especially for companies in the manufacturing, high technology, and service industries. Product and component lifecycles are...

The significance of product lifecycle management (PLM - Product Lifecycle Management, formerly referred to, in a narrower frame of reference, as PDM - Product Data Management) is increasing, especially for companies in the manufacturing, high technology, and service industries. Product and component lifecycles are...

This book moves beyond a general introduction to Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) and its basic elements to provide a more in-depth analysis of the subjects introduced in Volume 1 (Product Lifecycle Management: 21st Century Paradigm for Product Realisation). After providing insights into the emergence...

This book explains 'what goes on in a manufacturing company as a product goes through its lifecycle'. It describes more than 70 product-related activities that take place during the product lifecycle phases of ideation, development, production, service, and recycling. The various documents, data, working...

This volume addresses the convergence of three technologies that emerged in the early 21st century: Product Lifecycle Management (PLM), the Internet of Things (IoT), and Digital Twins. These are available to all manufacturing companies as their products go through the product lifecycle. This starts...

Die Beherrschung der Informationstechnologie im Produktentstehungsprozess hat sich in den letzten Jahren zum entscheidenden Wettbewerbsfaktor entwickelt. Auch für mittelständische Unternehmen gilt es nun zunehmend, IT-Potenziale im Product Lifecycle zu erschließen. PLM stellt jedoch mehr als eine gewöhnliche Systemeinführung dar, denn es erfordert eine intensive...

Ein pragmatischer Leitfaden zur Einführung und konkreten Umsetzung der PLM-Strategie in Unternehmen. Das Buch bietet geeignete Hilfsmittel auf operativer Ebene mit Schwerpunkt auf den Produktdaten-Managementsystemen PDMS. Die Autoren beschreiben eine allgemeine und systemneutrale Einführungsmethodik mit tiefer gehenden Einzelmethoden. Neben einer Anweisung zur Analyse des...

The two-volume set IFIP AICT 639 and 640 constitutes the refereed post-conference proceedings of the 18th IFIP WG 5.1 International Conference on Product Lifecycle Management, PLM 2021, held in Curitiba, Brazil, during July 11-14, 2021. The conference was held virtually due to the COVID-19...

This two-volume set IFIP AICT 701-702 constitutes the refereed post-conference proceedings of the 20th IFIP WG 5.1 International Conference on Product Lifecycle Management: Leveraging Digital Twins, Circular Economy, and Knowledge Management for Sustainable Innovation, PLM 2023, held in Montreal, QC, Canada, during July 9-12,...

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 19th IFIP WG 5.1 International Conference, PLM 2022, Grenoble, France, July 10-13, 2022, Revised Selected Papers.The 67 full papers included in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 94 submissions. They were organized in topical...

Im Rahmen der Teamarbeit wird der Ingenieur verstärkt in den Planungs-, Beschaffungs- und Produktionsprozess involviert. Dafür benötigt er neue Methoden zur Entscheidungsfindung und Informationsbeschaffung. Diese Unterstützung bieten die neu entwickelten PDM-Systeme für Produktentwicklung und Lifecycle Management. Sie enthalten als zusätzlichen Funktionsumfang das Electronic Engineering,...

This book develops a quantitative structured methodology for managing the development of new products for highly competitive markets. Particular attention has been given to integrating a number of experimental tools and concepts within a common framework including marketing research. Taguchi methods, value benchmarking, value...

This state-of-the-art text explores developments in geometric modeling, product modeling and their applications. In particular, it looks at the means by which product geometry emerges from the conceptual stages of design, and the use of geometric reasoning for applications downstream of design, including manufacture...

Exploring averaging dynamics in multiagent networked systems, this book offers an in-depth study of stability and other phenomena characterizing the limiting behavior of both deterministic and random averaging dynamics. Includes numerous illustrative examples.

Designing products and product families so they may be customized for the global marketplace and achieving these goals in abbreviated time period, while maintaining production efficiencies are the keys to successful manufacturing operations. The research on these areas has matured rapidly over the last...

Designing products and product families so they may be customized for the global marketplace and achieving these goals in abbreviated time period, while maintaining production efficiencies are the keys to successful manufacturing operations. The research on these areas has matured rapidly over the last...

Product Policy in Europe: New Environmental Perspectives presents an overview and assessment of a relatively new area of environmental policy in Europe. Whereas the more `traditional' environment policy mainly deals with individual emissions, waste and substances, product policy is a more comprehensive approach addressing...

Product Realization: A Comprehensive Approach is based on selected papers presented at the International Conference on Comprehensive Product Realization 2007 (ICCPR2007). The extended papers will provide the opportunity for scholars from all around the world to discuss their academic programs, identify research opportunities, and...

Product Realization: A Comprehensive Approach is based on selected papers presented at the International Conference on Comprehensive Product Realization 2007 (ICCPR2007). The extended papers will provide the opportunity for scholars from all around the world to discuss their academic programs, identify research opportunities, and...

Currently, reliability issues are not addressed effectively in new product development. Product reliability depends on the technical decisions made in the early stages and the impact of commercial outcomes in the latter stages. With an effective methodology for reliability performance and specification, one can...

Currently, reliability issues are not addressed effectively in new product development. Product reliability depends on the technical decisions made in the early stages and the impact of commercial outcomes in the latter stages. With an effective methodology for reliability performance and specification, one can...

7. 1. 1 Background Uncertainty can be considered as the lack of adequate information to make a decision. It is important to quantify uncertainties in mathematical models used for design and optimization of nondeterministic engineering systems. In general, - certainty can be broadly classi?ed...

Product proliferation has become a common phenomenon. Most companies now offer hundreds, if not thousands, of stock keeping units (SKUs) in order to compete in the market place. Companies with expanding product and service varieties face with problems of obtaining accurate demand forecasts, controlling...

This book describes cutting edge technology using supercritical fluids for the production of foodstuffs, medicals, and polymers. It illustrates the importance and use of basic data for design and operation at industrial scale units. The book's authors have several decades of experience of applied...

On behalf of the PROFES Organizing Committee we are proud to present the proce- th ings of the 10 International Conference on Product Focused Software Process - provement (PROFES 2009), held in Oulu, Finland. Since the first conference in 1999, the conference has established...