This paper mainly addresses the integration of engineering processes of enterprises performing collaborative product development in the form of virtual enterprise. The virtual enterprise support system with three-tier architecture is proposed first. The workflow process modelling and execution services are located in the business tier as service components. The implementation of information int...

Organizations increasingly adopt ecological product design techniques to lessen their harmful impacts on the natural environment. Theory about ecological product design remains in an early stage of development though. The present study focuses on organizational integration capabilities and their conceptual relation to ecological product design, such that they can be redeployed, expanded, and le...

The paper presents modeling and analysis of product design and product portfolio management (PD–PM) domains interaction using an integrated simulation–optimization model. To represent the interactions, the product design phase is modeled as a discrete-scenario static system. The goal of this work is to develop a decision support framework that relies on product design–product portfolio manageme...