The current chemical engineering curriculum emphasizes product engineering, which was appropriate in an era when we had many large-volume and long-lived products, which needed a continuous process of cost reduction. Today, in the rapidly growing products of polymers, biomedical devices, and information material, the products tend to be smallvolume and short-lived, which needed continuous improv...

n*m to n + m (see Figure 1). However, to provide this service, they must deal with the problem of heterogeneity in their customers’product, catalog, and document descriptions. Effectively and efficiently managing different description styles becomes a key task for these marketplaces. In real-world marketplaces, developing a scalable approach for information integration has become the main prere...

Using a detailed data set of prices of consumer goods in European cities from 1990 to Spring 2003, we investigate the question of whether the introduction of the euro in January 1999 increased integration of consumer markets as reflected by consumer prices. In fact, we find no tendency for prices to converge after January 1999. This finding holds even when we control for a number of factors tha...

CAD data has grown in complexity while computer assisted tools must be improved in the following aspects: usability for non CAD experts, cooperation support, understanding of 3D geometries and integration between real and virtual models. We present a novel scenario for product development integration based on Augmented Reality. The main advantage of our approach is to add contextual information...

The Standard for the Exchange of Product model data (STEP, or ISO 10303) is a family of standards aimed to represent a product's information throughout its entire life cycle. STEP comprises several classes of documents organized in a database-like architecture. This paper focuses on STEP Implementation Methods and their application on the implementation of shareable product databases. File exch...

The integration phase represents a highly critical part of the product development process as components are combined and should work together. Errors and problems in product integration result in delays and rework as the results are needed for later phases. Standards and other reference models that include guidelines for product integration are available, but are not always used. Our proposal ...

To meet customer demands, companies must manage numerous variants and versions of their products. Since product-related data (e.g., requirements’ specifications, geometric models, and source code, or test cases) are usually scattered over a large number of heterogeneous, autonomous information systems, their integration becomes crucial when developing complex products on one hand and aiming at ...

The transport element method is described and implemented in the simulation of the non-premixed reacting shear layer. The method, a natural extention of the vortex element method, resolves the low Mach number variable density ow and the exothermic reacting eld. The eeect of combustion on the ow is accommodated by incorporating a volumetric expansion velocity component and by modifying the integ...

There is consensus in the marketing literature that market knowledge and cross-functional collaboration are two fundamental resources for successful product innovation. However, few studies examine the dimensions or characteristics of market knowledge and how and why these resources influence product innovation performance. Drawing on contingency theory and the knowledge-based view of the firm,...