Fixture design is an important issue in the process of manufacturing. Fixture design is a critical design activity process which bridges Computer-Aided Design (CAD) and Computer-Aided Manufacturing (CAM). The present paper presents a literature review of the Computer-Aided Fixture Design (CAFD) approaches performed. The purpose of this research is to give a deep and quick understanding of fixtu...

This investigation addresses distributed environments for computer-aided process planning (CAPP) over a network. The Java 2 Enterprise Edition (J2EE) standard using Java is applied to implement cross-platform and distributed computing architecture, thus reducing the system loading during manufacturing process planning. The product-oriented standard, standard exchange of product (STEP), model da...

This thesis considers the construction of a system to support the total design cycle for control systems. This encompasses modelling of the plant to be controlled, specification of the final ob­ jectives or performance, design of the required controllers and their implementation in hardware and software. The main contributions of this thesis are : its development of a model for CAD support for ...

In most cases, enactment is the most resource consuming aspect of process improvement, as large process changes are put into practice. Problems that typically are encountered include ineffective process changes, resistance from employees, and unclarity about the advantages of the new process. These problems can be avoided by incrementally implementing process changes, especially if the enactmen...

ÐEmpirical software engineering can be viewed as a series of actions to obtain knowledge and a better understanding about some aspects of software development given a set of problem statements in the form of issues, questions or hypotheses. Our experience in conducting empirical software engineering from a variety of viewpoints for the last decade has made us aware of the criticality of integra...

A wide range of possibilities exists for the use of computers in the teaching of control system design and simulation. Several approa­ ches such as the use of program packages, single purpose programs or com­ plete environments are described in the paper. Experience gained from teaching with these methods is summarized, and recommendations for forther improvements are given.

In theory, software product lines are planned in advance, using established engineering methods. However, there are cases where commonalities and variabilities between several systems are only discovered after they have been developed individually as single systems. In retrospect, this leads to the hindsight that these systems should have been developed as a software product line from the begin...

Building engineering is one of the keystones to economic competitiveness. As a consequence, computational models for planning and design are important research topics. To meet the expectation that computer-aid enables to produce better designs in shorter time, the tools built on these models need to be fully integrated into the work ow of architects. The paper presents the architecture of a pla...

Building Information Models (BIM) have revealed themselves as a good tool to support construction actions, due to their ability to store all the information in one digital model and to promote collaboration between all participants in a project. Teaching Civil Engineering requires a permanent updating of knowledge concerning procedures and technologies used in the construction industry. In this...