Integrating Advanced ComputerAided Design, Manufacturing, and Numerical Control: Principles and Implementations

For many years, computers have been playing a prominent role in the process of product design and manufacture. As manufacturing continues to march into the future, there is a critical need to address the role of computer technologies in an integrated fashion, placing emphasis on product data exchange as well as product data management.

Integrating Advanced ComputerAided Design, Manufacturing, and Numerical Control: Principles and Implementations presents basic principles of geometric modelling while featuring contemporary industrial case studies. A onestop reference source for the latest field standards, this comprehensive title expands beyond the traditional scope of the product development process to give a brief account on product data management (PDM) and product lifecycle management (PLM).