...Souma Chowdhury; Achille Messac; Ritesh A Khire Development of a family of products that satisfies different market niches introduces significant challenges to today’s manufacturing industries—from development time to aftermarket services. A product family with a common platform paradigm offers...

...Yusuke Kishita; Bi Hong Low; Shinichi Fukushige; Yasushi Umeda; Atsushi Suzuki; Takao Kawabe The manufacturing industry is faced with a challenge to create products with less environmental impact targeting a sustainable society. To cope with this challenge, sustainable design or ecodesign plays one...

...G. Gary Wang; S. Shan Computation-intensive design problems are becoming increasingly common in manufacturing industries. The computation burden is often caused by expensive analysis and simulation processes in order to reach a comparable level of accuracy as physical testing data. To address...