Integrated Product and Process Modeling for Collaborative Design Environment

Concurrent Engineering Research and Applications

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 5-24

  Nahm, Yoon Eui ^a   Ishikawa, Haruo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ELECTRO COMMUNICATIONS   (Japan)

Author keywords

Agent based approach; Concurrent engineering; Design decomposition; Distributed collaborative design; Integrated modeling; Internet

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER SUPPORTED COOPERATIVE WORK; CUSTOMER SATISFACTION; HIERARCHICAL SYSTEMS; INTERNET; LIFE CYCLE; PROCESS ENGINEERING; PRODUCT DESIGN; PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT; QUALITY CONTROL;

AGENT-BASED APPROACH; DESIGN DECOMPOSITION; DISTRIBUTED COLLABORATIVE DESIGN; INTEGRATED MODELING; PROCESS MODELING;

CONCURRENT ENGINEERING;

EID: 1842680394     PISSN: 1063293X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1063293x04040440     Document Type: Review

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