The paper deals with new classification methods in Computer Aided Process Planning (CAPP) systems which extend the possibility of engineering part classification. New developed methods of classification – selective and dynamic classifications will be introduced and described in the paper.

In this article a study of state of the art of the concurrent engineering technique in the automotive industry is presented. The importance and benefits of concurrent engineering in automotive industry are highlighted. The study in the areas of concurrent engineering tools, especially the information technology tools such as finite element analysis, computer-aided design and expert systems, is ...

Object versions are a key feature of object-oriented database evolution. The applications targeted by OODBs (such as CAD or CASE applications) need to manipulate complex objects, i.e objects linked to other objects by dependence relations (composition, inheritance, association, etc.) and, consequently, complex object versions. This paper investigates the existing approaches in complex object ve...

When considering process systems as socio-technical systems there is a need for computer models that can describe their full complexity. The Agent Based Model (ABM) paradigm promises to offer new modelling methods and tools that can complement the well established Computer Aided Process Engineering (CAPE) approaches. In this paper guidelines for the application of ABM are discussed and the suit...

Many conventional technologies for fabricating tissue engineering scaffolds are not suitable for fabricating scaffolds with patient-specific attributes. For example, many conventional technologies for fabricating tissue engineering scaffolds do not provide control over overall scaffold geometry or over cell position within the scaffold. In this study, the use of computer-aided laser micromachin...

The enabling technologies for CAPE (Computer Aided of Production Engineering) emerged in the mid-’80s. Simulation, off-line programming, advanced graphics, motion emulation and powerful computers to support them all matured to the extend that CAPE technology could be brought into economically justifiable use. Introduction In the start of this millenium was changed old products by new, especiall...

Tissue engineering technology promises to solve the organ transplantation crisis. However, assembly of vascularized 3D soft organs remains a big challenge. Organ printing, which we define as computer-aided, jet-based 3D tissue-engineering of living human organs, offers a possible solution. Organ printing involves three sequential steps: pre-processing or development of "blueprints" for organs; ...

Rigorous and supportive engineering database management (EDBM) was accorded little serious consideration in computer-aided control engineering (CACE) software development prior to the mid 1980s. By then, CACE environments had become very powerful and extensive, and thus the need for keeping track of models, analysis results, control system designs, and validation study results had become increa...

An approach for the speciication and implementation of neural networks within a software engineering framework is presented. We show the suit-ability of the formal methods of the OMT (Object Modeling Technique) introduced by Rumbaugh 2] using an object-oriented CASE (computer aided software engineering) tool.