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As humans we have used man-made objects since the dawn of times, but it is only since the industrial revolution some 250 years ago that the cost efficient engineering materials and manufacturing processes emerged that have since fundamentally changed our society. Industrial production is often characterised by mechanisation, large scale operations, utilisation of mechanical power, specialisation and standardisation.
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Sunnersjö, S. (2016). Introduction. In: Intelligent Computer Systems in Engineering Design. Studies in Systems, Decision and Control, vol 51. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-28125-4_1
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