Digital Products

1. Front Matter

   Pages 1-5

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2. CAD/CAM Data Interoperability Strategies

   • George Allen

   Pages 7-25

3. Product Data Technology — A Basis for Virtual Product Development

   • Reiner Anderl

   Pages 27-35

4. Get it Right the First Time

   • Peter H. Ernst

   Pages 37-44

5. Living Data as Knowledge Source

   • H. Grabowski, R. Ostermayer

   Pages 45-63

6. Enabler Technologies for Future Engineering Processes

   • Siegmar Haasis, Alfred Katzenbach

   Pages 65-73

7. CARMEN Technology: Towards a Component CAx System

   • Andrzej T. Janocha

   Pages 75-80

8. Press Die Design by Parametric Solid Modeling

   • Hiroyuki Makino

   Pages 81-86

9. Numerical Simulation in Product Development

   • Günter Müller

   Pages 87-94

10. Parametrics: Present and Future

    • Akihiko Ohtaka

    Pages 95-101

11. An Overview of the CADCEUS System

    • Akihiko Ohtaka

    Pages 103-113

12. Digital Processes in Product Creation

    • Gustav J. Olling

    Pages 115-121

13. Implementing STEP for the exchange of CAD Data: Some first hand experiences

    • Markus Schichtel

    Pages 123-129

14. Progress Towards Solving Common CAx Challenges in the Automotive Industry

    • Brian Shepherd

    Pages 131-133

15. STEP — a key element for the PDM strategy at BMW

    • Dietmar Trippner, Thomas Kiesewetter

    Pages 135-142

16. ‘TOGO’ — The New Integrated CAD/CAM/CAE System at Toyota

    • Shinji Yuasa

    Pages 143-148

17. Summary of Panel discussion

    • Barbi Driedger-Marschall

    Pages 149-153

In addition to the classical needs, competition on the global market requires from industry product innovations: quality, time to market, reduction of costs (Q,T,C). The modern process networks of product development and manufacturing passing the borders of countries and including several companies could not work without an extensive use of information technology. This is going far beyond the former idea of Computer Aided Design. Thus the 3'd Workshop on Current CAx-Problems did not focus on functionalities or methods aiding design like in the first two workshops but on "Digital Products - Living Data is the Future": problems of the virtual simulation of the entire industrial process, starting with the development of a product and covering the complete life cycle. The workshop aimed at bringing together the three groups: industry (mainly automotive manufacturers), system suppliers, and fundamental research. During the workshop, communication between these three groups had to be intensified, and especially also among competing companies of the same branch to pave the way for concerted actions, which are essential for all in the future.

• CAD
• Computergrafik
• Geometrie
• Technologie
• communication
• computer-aided design (CAD)
• computer-aided engineering (CAE)
• computer-aided manufacturing (CAM)
• development
• environment
• modeling
• simulation
• solid modeling

• Universität Kaiserslautern, Germany

  Werner Dankwort

• Technische Universität Darmstadt, Germany

  Josef Hoschek

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