e-Engineering & Digital Enterprise Technology VII

Download or read book e-Engineering & Digital Enterprise Technology VII written by Kai Cheng and published by Trans Tech Publications Ltd. This book was released on 2009-10-12 with total page 1470 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Volume is indexed by Thomson Reuters CPCI-S (WoS). During the past decade, digital manufacturing science and technology have experienced very rapid development. These have not only provided industry with new methods, new tools and new digitalized products - which have transformed everything from design, materials processing to operational and management procedures - but are also changing the intercommunications, modes of thought and working environments of everybody in the manufacturing field. Digital manufacturing has brought remarkable and fundamental improvements to manufacturing industry and related research.