...Hector J. Carlo; J. Patrick Spicer; Adamaris Rivera-Silva The design of manufacturing systems is typically decoupled from ordering policy decisions. Traditionally, the system design decision is made to minimize the total investment cost given some system capacity requirements. Then, after...

...Adnan Niazi; Jian S. Dai; Stavroula Balabani; Lakmal Seneviratne This paper provides a detailed review of the state of the art in product cost estimation covering various techniques and methodologies developed over the years. The overall work is categorized into qualitative and quantitative...

... of composite components with complex shapes. With the STM and the regression-based dimensional variation models, rapid design optimization was conducted to reduce the dimensional variations of composite assemblies. Cost-tolerance functions were developed using a fuzzy multiattribute utility theory based cost...

...Uday A. Kulkarni; Han P. Bao One of the major drawbacks of present cost estimation models is their incapability of embracing effectively complete product development stage. Parametric estimation works well in early design stage, but when it comes to detail design stage, a more complete estimation...