Tools and Methods of Competitive Engineering: Proceedings Fifth International Symposium on Tools and Methods of Competitive Engineering, Lausanne, Switzerland, April 13 - 17, 2004 - Hardcover

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The papers of this proceedings were first presented at the 5th International Symposium on Tools and Methods of Competitive Engineering, held in April 2004 in Lausanne, Switzerland. Of the 220 papers originally presented, 92 are presented here at full length and 50 in 2-page summaries. The CD-ROM contains all 142 papers in their full length. The symposium's main theme was life-cycle engineering, with topics included on product longevity, reliability, use, maintenance, sustainability, and recycling. A small sampling of the topics of the full-length papers include active learning in a virtual business environment, technology management in product design, assembly and disassembly of micro-mechatronic products, aesthetic design, morphological modeling techniques, support of concept synthesis using genetic algorithms, and identification of users and their relations to the product. Competitive manufacturing technologies and virtual enterprise technologies are the main subjects of v.2. The engineers who contributed are affiliated with industries and universities worldwide. Author index only. There is no US distributor. Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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