Collaborative Design and Planning for Digital Manufacturing

by Andrew Yeh Ching Nee and Lihui Wang

Book Overview

Collaborative design has attracted much attention in the research community in recent years. With increasingly decentralized manufacturing systems and processes, more collaborative approaches and systems are needed to support distributed manufacturing operations. "Collaborative Design and Planning for Digital Manufacturing" presents a focused collection of quality chapters on the state-of-the-art research efforts in the area of collaborative design and planning, as well as their practical applications towards digital manufacturing.

"Collaborative Design and Planning for Digital Manufacturing" provides both a broad-based review of the key areas of research in digital manufacturing, and an in-depth treatment of particular methodologies and systems, from collaborative design to distributed planning, monitoring and control. Recent development and innovations in this area provide a pool of focused research efforts, relevant to a wide readership from academic researchers to practicing engineers.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1848822863
• ISBN13: 9781848822863
• Release Date: February 2009
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 413 Pages
• Weight: 1.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.2" x 9.4"