caa a22 4500 469072725 CHVBK 20180323132926.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170328e19920901xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/BF01607943 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/BF01607943 Topological properties that model feature-based representation conversions within concurrent engineering [Elektronische Daten] [Davis Rosen, Thomas Peters] One of the fundamental axioms of concurrent engineering is that undertaking functional design without foreseeing the manufacturing process leads to production delays and increased costs. This widely accepted concurrent engineering principle is given a formal basis by development of a mathematical model for the conversion of a feature-based design representation to a manufacturing representation. Within the domain of thin-walled components, it is shown that the conversion to tooling cost representations can result in a discontinuous function when the sets of design and manufacturing representations have been formulated as topological spaces. This discontinuity formally reflects the folklore that a small design change can significantly increase product cost. The mathematical sophistication required within this model is suggestive of why manufacturability evaluations can be quite difficult. Springer-Verlag New York Inc., 1992 Rosen Davis Mechanical Design Automation Laboratory, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Massachusetts at Amherst, Amherst, Massachusetts, USA aut Peters Thomas Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Connecticut, 06269, Storrs, CT, USA aut Research in Engineering Design Springer-Verlag 4/3(1992-09-01), 147-158 0934-9839 4:3<147 1992 4 163 https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01607943 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01607943 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Rosen Davis Mechanical Design Automation Laboratory, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Massachusetts at Amherst, Amherst, Massachusetts, USA aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Peters Thomas Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Connecticut, 06269, Storrs, CT, USA aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Research in Engineering Design Springer-Verlag 4/3(1992-09-01), 147-158 0934-9839 4:3<147 1992 4 163 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer