Knowledge-Intensive CAD clarifies and elaborates the concepts of knowledge-intensive design and CAD. In today's advanced manufacturing environment, CAD systems should not only assist designers and engineers during product design, but also in design information for use in later stages of the process such as production, distribution and operation. This book focuses on the sharing of knowledge across life-cycle stages and organizational boundaries.

Preface. Part One: Introduction. Part Two: Invited talk. Part Three: Knowledge intensive CAD framework. Part Four: Product configuration. Part Five: Constraints. Part Six: Product modeling. Part Seven: Design process. Part Eight: Knowledge intensive design. Index of contributors. Keyword index.

Martti Mäntylä is a Professor at the Laboratory of Information Processing Science, Helsinki University of Technology, Finland.
Susan Finger is a Professor at the Department of Civil Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA.
Tetsuo Tomiyama is a Professor at RACE, The University of Tokyo, Japan.