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New Technologies: From Basic Ideas to Mature Technologies
Lightweight design aims at minimizing the weight of a structure while product requirements are completely fulfilled. Utilization of closed profiles and materials with higher strength but reduced material thick...
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New Challenges: Technology Integrated Market-Pull
Newly developed products usually do not only face the market requirements. With the manufacturing induced properties it is possible to satisfy the constantly rising market requirements, e.g., in the mechanical...
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The Result: A New Design Paradigm
One of the key challenges faced by engineers is finding, concretizing, and optimizing solutions for a specific technical problem in the context of requirements and constraints (Pahl et al. 2007). Depending on ...
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Computer-Integrated Engineering and Design
Virtual product development aims at the use of information modeling techniques and computer-aided (CAx-) tools during the product development process, to represent the real product digitally as an integrated p...