IPA ― Concepts and Applications in Engineering (Decision Engineering) - Hardcover

Pokojski, Jerzy

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1852337419 ISBN 13: 9781852337414

Publisher: Springer, 2003

Synopsis

This book presents the results of extensive research in computer-supported decision processes in engineering,carried out over many years by the author and his coll- orators. The author has cooperated with designers in Poland and in Germany. Very often there was university–industry cooperation for the building of speci?c so- ware for certain engineering tasks. The majority of the concepts,for example “the designer’s personal assistant”and the decomposition and coordination of multicriteria decision problems, evolved through cooperation with designers in this ?eld. The author,while working together with them,understood that this group of people is characterised by a strong in- vidualism and that the range of applied approaches and methods is wide. The most signi?cant in?uences on the author’s opinions through contact with the designers were the lectures he delivered for more than 12 years for post-graduate studies on computer-aided design in machinery. The lectures included seminars which required the creation of concepts for an individual computer support system for decision processes,generally well known to the designers who participated in the lectures. In the theoretical part the characteristics of the actual computer-aided design and engineering (CAD and CAE) tools were depicted,whereas in the practical part the students created concepts of computer environments for the realisation of design projects in their own professional work. The task was con?ned to the expr- sion of the design process.

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"This is an extremely comprehensive and thoughtful survey of the possibilities of computer assistance to a design engineer, and their realisation in an ‘Intelligent Personal Assistant’. The undertaking of an engineering project is considered in detail, from initial jottings through successive refinement requiring reference to data and catalogues, and employment of software facilities for computer aided design (CAD) and computer aided engineering (CAE), as well as consultation with colleagues. ... There is a very great deal of valuable material here ... ." (Alex M. Andrew, Kybernetes, Vol. 34 (5), 2005)

Synopsis

The work of design engineers is very individual. Using personal approaches and methods, designers have an individual way of seeing a problem. In practice personal notes are used by every designer, often general comments about technical problems and situations. There are a variety of personal methods of supporting the design process and computer tools can make the whole design process more efficient. In professional practice you continually add to your existing knowledge base (notes), for your own purposes. In this case the intelligent personal assistant fulfils the role of those active notes. Based on real industrial procedures, the process is the result of many years of design experience. This work contains numerous examples for practical use by professionals and students interested in real implementations of knowledge based systems in engineering. Uniquely, the book deals with areas specifically important to designers, knowledge engineers and engineering software designers. This is an extremely comprehensive and thoughtful survey of the possibilities of computer assistance to a design engineer, and their realisation in an Intelligent Personal Assistant.

The undertaking of an engineering project is considered in detail, from initial jottings through successive refinement requiring reference to data and catalogues, and employment of software facilities for computer aided design (CAD) and computer aided engineering (CAE), as well as consultation with colleagues, Alex M Andrew, Kybernetes 34(5).

Edition details

• Publisher: Springer
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 1852337419
• ISBN 13: 9781852337414
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 180