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| Over the past decades product design
has gradually evolved from an art to a more systematically managed
business activity. Design evaluation and optimisation techniques
are being developed that verify the fitness of proposed designs for
different phases of the product life cycle, including
manufacturing, assembly, logistics, maintenance, disassembly, etc.
In a Life Cycle Engineering (LCE) approach, these considerations
are integrated in order to achieve an optimal product specification
that takes into account all phases of the product life cycle.
Moreover, both the total life cycle cost and the overall
environmental impact are considered. Since contemporary design and
development work is obviously characterised by a very high
knowledge-intensity, the development of a new generation of
knowledge management systems is another research interest of the
department. |
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