State of the Art in CAD Methodologies

The following links detail a three-year study of product development methods in Japan, Europe, and the United States, sponsored by the U.S. Office of Naval Research.

1993-94 U.S. Visits: State of the Art in the United States of CAD Methodologies for Product Development

1992 Europe Visit: Electro-Mechanical Design in Europe: University Research and Industrial Practice

1991 Japan Visit: State of the Art In Japanese CAD Methodologies for Mechanical Products

Other Online Papers

The Potential for Assembly Modeling in Product Development and Manufacturing

Why Mechanical Design Cannot Be Like VLSI Design

Is the Make-Buy Decision Process a Core Competence?

Nippondenso CO. LTD.: A Case Study of Strategic Product Design

Cost and Efficiency Performance of Automobile Engine Plants

Voices from Engine Plants

Nippondenso Co Kariya Head Offices and Takatana Instrument Cluster Factory

Problems and Issues in Design and Manufacture of Complex Electro-mechanical Systems

Design Automation Final Report

Related Websites

Design Structure Matrix (DSM)
Web site for resources pertaining to DSM, a technique for modeling and simulating information flows and precedences in complex product development processes and other similar systems.

Agile Manufacturing
Web site for resources on Fast and Flexible Communications projects at MIT.