Product Engineering

Cover -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- List of participants -- Introduction -- Part 1 ECO-DESIGN -- INVITED LECTURES -- The design for environmental compliance workbench tool -- Eco-Impact anticipation by parametric screening of machine system components: An Introduction to the EcoPaS Methodology -- Man machine interaction and man machine interface -- critical issues for the human environment -- Integrating eco-design into business environments -- Virtual environments -- The eco-friendly approach to product design? -- CONTRIBUTIONS -- A TRIZ approach to design for environment -- Eco-design approach for the tripode type coupling -- Natural shapes ... a source of inspiration for eco -- design -- Part 2 COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN -- INVITED LECTURES -- On some crucial issues of computer support of conceptual design: What to consider in order to be successful -- Expert system for the total design of mechanical systems with gears -- CONTRIBUTIONS -- Virtual design prototyping utilizing haptic immersion -- A new geometry representation for multipurpose modeling in conceptual design -- Part 3 SIMULATION TECHNOLOGIES -- INVITED LECTURES -- An overview of several formulations for multibody dynamics -- Dynamic models in multi-body systems: A product life cycle key technology -- Real-time MBS formulations: towards virtual engineering -- Multi-body dynamics: an evolution from constrained dynamics to a multiphysics interactive framework -- CONTRIBUTIONS -- A collaborative simulation environment for multibody system analysis -- Design evaluation of multibody systems in virtual environment -- Spiral elevator modelling and analysis using ADAMS software -- A new model to estimate friction torque in a ball screw system -- Part 4 ROBOTICS AND MANUFACTURING -- INVITED LECTURES -- Translational parallel robots with uncoupled motions: A structural synthesis approach -- Design of new high speed machining machines -- CONTRIBUTIONS -- High degree accuracy modelling and calibration of serial robots with large errors -- Application of image analysis for the study of structural modifications in flowing emulsions: Theoretical approach and practical application -- The manufacture technology of tube models by selective laser sintering -- Mobile robot system controlled through mobile communications -- Part 5 GREEN ENERGY -- INVITED LECTURES -- Optimization of the wind generation: comparison between two algorithms -- Design and determination of the most cost effective PV configuration systems to meet the loads of a household -- CONTRIBUTIONS -- The Spanish electric power generation sector and its positioning before Kyoto protocol -- Helical turbine for aeolian systems and micro-hydrostation.