Computer Aided Design (CAD) technology plays a key role in today's advanced manufacturing environment. To reduce the time to market, achieve zero defect quality the first time, and use available production and logistics resources effectively, product and design process knowledge covering the whole product life-cycle must be used throughout product design. Once generated, this intensive design knowledge should be made available to later life-cycle activities. Due to the increasing concern about global environmental issues and rapidly changing economical situation worldwide, design must exhibit high performance not only in quality and productivity, but also in life-cycle issues, including extended producer's liability. These goals require designers and engineers to use various kinds of design knowledge intensively during product design and to generate design information for use in later stages of the product life-cycle such as production, distribution, operation, maintenance, reclamation, and recycling. Therefore, future CAD systems must incorporate product and design process knowledge, which are not explicitly dealt with in the current systems, in their design tools and design object models.

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Martti Mäntylä is a Professor at the Laboratory of Information Processing Science, Helsinki University of Technology, Finland. Susan Finger is a Professor at the Department of Civil Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA. Tetsuo Tomiyama is a Professor at RACE, The University of Tokyo, Japan.

Inhalt
One Architecture for Knowledge Intensive CAD.- 1 An intellectual infrastructure for integrating design knowledge.- 2 An experimental environment for exchanging engineering design knowledge by cognitive agents.- 3 PICCSS: Problem Interactive Clarification and Concurrent Solving System.- 4 A formal theory for knowledge-based product model representation.- 5 Knowledge based design of complex products by the concept of design working spaces.- Two Methodologies for Knowledge Intensive CAD.- 6 Design innovation guided by modeling assumptions.- 7 On design evaluation based on functional modeling.- Three Design Knowledge Representation.- 8 Case studies of ontology for the knowledge intensive engineering framework.- 9 Active Catalog: a knowledge-rich design library facilitating information consumption.- 10 Graphical presentation of designs: a knowledge intensive design approach.- 11 The RACE asynchronous collaboration environment project.- 12 Object modeling to localize knowledge for feature interrelationships.- 13 Structuring knowledge of life-cycle consequences for supporting concurrent design exploration.- 14 Classification of geometric design information and manipulation for vague geometric modelling.- 15 Dealing with standard components for knowledge-intensive CAD.- Four Knowledge Intensive Design for the Life-Cycle.- 16 Supporting multiple views in design for manufacture.- 17 Integrating electrical and mechanical design and process planning.- Five Report on Working Groups.- 18 Which way to KIC?.- Index of contributors.- Keyword index.