The Future of Product Development Proceedings of the 17th CIRP Desig

Product development is one of the most important drivers of innovation. Methods, procedures and systems evoke, enable and support sustainable innovation. The papers presented in this book show that answers can only be composed out of a variety of solution

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Frank-Lothar Krause (Ed.)

The Future of Product Development Proceedings of the 17th CIRP Design Conference

With 298 Figures and 22 Tables

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Editor Professor Dr.-Ing. Frank-Lothar Krause Fraunhofer IPK Pascalstr. 8–9 10587 Berlin Germany [email protected]

Library of Congress Control Number: 2007922482

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Preface

Product development is changing since its early beginnings. Especially since the time of industrialization the speed of this change has constantly grown. The 1960 saw the introduction of computers into product development. The development of computers and software are amazing artefacts. Product development methods have been generated for the use in teaching as well as for the use in industrial processes. Most of the methods have been created without the usage of computers. That means that even today conventional methods are still dominating and large numbers of tools and systems are used for the support of product development processes. However, still missing are methods of computer integrated product development. »The Future of Product Development« comprises 68 papers from more than 20 countries. It is a collection of current industrial views and of research results. Three major industrial companies outline their demand for EHWWHUSURGXFWGHYHORSPHQWIROORZHGE\WKHPDMRUYHQGRUVLQWKHÀHOGJLYing their reply. The remainder are papers on current RTD. The conference can be seen as a mirror of international tendencies in product development in the year 2007. It shows the urgent need for change in product development and for new solutions. The presentations in this conference are therefore of direct help for the industry and stimuli for ongoing discussions on enhanced product development. In this sense the presentations and t