This paper briefly describes some international standards used for engineering design tools that precede simulation in the product development process. Very much information in such design tools can be reused when developing Modelica simulation models. Examples are product structures, component parameters, and component connection information. The Modelica Standard Library (MSL) with the latest...

The development of Product Design Specifications (PDS) is an important part of the product development process. Incompleteness, ambiguity, or inconsistency in the PDS can lead to problems during the design process and may require unnecessary design iterations. This generally results in increased design time and cost. Currently, in many organizations, PDS are written using word processors. Since...

Acceleration of product development, decrease of NC programming effort and increase of product quality are demands from enterprises to make their products competitive. These requirements are hardly met by the today’s used CAx process chain which is based on a multitude of interfaces and the standardized control data format ISO 6983. New concepts of product data modelling are necessary for a str...

The Prometheus Design Tool (PDT) is a graphical tool that is used to design a Multi-Agent System following the Prometheus Methodology. This paper describes the latest version of PDT which is now integrated into the Eclipse platform, enabling the users to accomplish the full development life-cycle of an agent-oriented application in one IDE and also inherit the rich set of product development fe...

Today, it has become more difficult for individual designer to fulfill the complicated design work due to the complexity of modern products. Moreover, an increasing trend toward product development in a collaborative environment has resulted in the involvement of multitudinous enterprises and the use of various software tools to enhance the product design. P2P-based manufacturing grid which com...

The article presents research results based on the concept of collaborative infrastructure (as the virtual enterprise network PREMINV e-platform from “Politehnica” University of Bucharest, Romania), in order to unify existing standards for supply chain management and to provide support in various decision making processes in manufacturing supply networks. The intent is to facilitate and enhance...

Finite-element analysis is an important product development tool in medical devices industry for design and failure analysis of devices. This tool helps device designers to quickly explore various design options, optimizing specific designs and providing a deeper insight how a device is actually performing. In this study, three-dimensional finite-element models of superelastic nickel-titanium a...

*Correspondence: [email protected] 1School of Management, Shanghai University, 99 Shangda Road, 200444 Shanghai, China Full list of author information is available at the end of the article Abstract Quality function deployment (QFD) is a new product development tool remarked with interpreting customer requirements into engineering characteristics of the design process. On account of the in...

Let fvs(G) and cfvs(G) denote the cardinalities of a minimum feedback vertex set and a minimum connected feedback vertex set of a graph G, respectively. For a graph class G, the price of connectivity for feedback vertex set (poc-fvs) for G is defined as the maximum ratio cfvs(G)/fvs(G) over all connected graphs G in G. It is known that the poc-fvs for general graphs is unbounded. We study the p...

Group-IV nanocrystals have emerged as a promising group of materials that extends the realm of application of bulk diamond, silicon, germanium and related materials beyond their traditional boundaries. Over the last two decades of research, their potential for application in areas such as optoelectronic applications and memory devices has been progressively unraveled. Nevertheless, new challeng...