Smart products not only provide novel functionalities, but also may establish new business models, markets, or distribution channels, strengthen relationships with consumers, and/or add smart remote services. While many technical obstacles of such products have already been overcome, the broad market dissemination of smart products still poses some vital managerial challenges for decision maker...

* Combined free-form and technical surfacing in one environment means no data transfer between design and engineering * Design precise curves and surfaces to achieve highly-engineered, manufacturable products * Confidently explore design variants by making fully associative changes at any time * Intuitive user interface provides direct surface editing capabilities, real-time feedback and allows...

When evaluating application systems for designers, the roles and effects of the systems must be taken into account. Existing research on design support tools often seems to pay little attention to such evaluation variations, however. This paper uses three physical tools, dumbbells, running shoes, and skis, as analogies to explore different types of computational tools for design processes; dumb...

This paper outlines the conversion of a psychometric test to a web-based study. The test measures understanding of three-dimensional (3D) concepts as it applies to technical drawing. We describe the instrument in terms of its subtests and examine implementation and data collection issues. Comments are provided about technical, experimental design, participation and recruitment matters. We repor...

in today's design, system complexity and increasing demand for safer, more efficient and less costly systems have created new challenges in science and engineering. locomotives are products which are designed according to market order and technical needs of customers. accordingly, targets of companies, especially designers and manufacturers of locomotives, have always been on the path of progre...