Cyber-physical systems are multidisciplinary systems which involve different engineering disciplines in their design. Each engineering discipline tends to use its own domain-specific languages and tools to model different aspects of a system concurrently. The concurrent modelling process may introduce inconsistencies due to lack of common knowledge and communication among domain experts. Especi...

The engineering design process follows a series of standardized stages of development, which have many aspects in common with software engineering. Among these stages, the principle solution can be regarded as an analogue of the design specification, fixing as it does the way the final product works. It is usually constructed as an abstract sketch (hand-drawn or constructed with a CAD system) w...

In engineering, flood routing is an important technique necessary for the solution of a floodcontrol problem and for the satisfactory operation of a flood-prediction service. A simple conceptual model like the Muskingum model is very effective for the flood routing process. One challenge in application of the Muskingum model is that its parameters cannot be measured physically. In this article ...

manufacturers around the globe are competing for the identification of innovative value propositions to survive in the competitive and complex market. this paper is intended to investigate implementation of value engineering (ve) technique into the product design concept for necessary changes in design of the humidifier system in order to lower unnecessary costs and to increase quality of the p...

An important factor for the success of today’s companies in global competition is the continuous improvement of the product development process within a product’s life-cycle. However, complex technical products affecting several engineering domains and manifold product variants lead to frequent iterations within the product development process. To decrease the development time of a product, it ...

Evaluation is a key task in design, and a major goal in computational design is to develop techniques for evaluating designs throughout the design process, starting as early in the process as possible. We describe a computational technique for evaluating design concepts early in conceptual phase of engineering design. Conceptual design in engineering is abstracted as a function to structure map...

Subject review Combining Industrial and Functional Design methodologies for the development of new products and systems requires a broad understanding of human behaviour and industrial activities. The requirements of international standards, protection of the environment and the ability to make a profit on sales requires a sound attitude and approach to succeed, especially in current economic c...

Globalization has transformed engineering design into a world-wide endeavor pursued by geographically distributed specialist teams. Widespread adoption of VR for design and the need to act and place marks directly on the objects of discussion in design reviewing tasks led to research on annotations in virtual collaborative environments. However, conventional approaches have yet to progress beyo...

Vehicle frame structural engineering and optimization is discussed with focus on integrated design, analysis, and cost modeling within a single software environment. Unique to this environment is an innovative object oriented architecture that implements a unified part model, providing various levels of modeling and analysis fidelity while capturing conceptual, preliminary, and detailed enginee...

In this paper, we propose LEMP as a model-driven process to develop a language endowed with a set of derived artifacts (syntax, interchange format, APIs, ...) and with a well defined formal semantics. The process exploits the Model Driven Engineering principles of metamodeling, model transformation and automatic generation of language processing tools. We describe the requirements to fulfill an...