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One of the major bottlenecks in conceptual engineering design is the pure amount of design information which the design engineer needs to take into consideration. Furthermore, the ...
Making decisions with an, often significant, element of risk seems to be an integral part of many of the projects of the diverse profession of engineering. Whether it be decisions...
In 1991 Ford began deployment of the Computer Aided Parts Estimating System (CAPE), a highly advanced knowledge-based system designed to generate, evaluate and cost automotive par...
Experienced and wise industrial engineering educators and practitioners have long understood that industrial engineering is a coherent discipline encompassing techniques that work...
Karthik Krishna Vasudevan, Ravindra Lote, Edward J...