Description: 1: The Design Process.- Analysis of the setting up of a concurrent engineering scenario.- Failure-sensitive Product Development.- A language for the modeling of the design process in mechanical engineering.- CAD/analysis integration. (An object-oriented approach).- Rethinking CAD tools through their use.- Product / Manufacturing: A systemic approach for simultaneous engineering.- On a genetic multiobjective approach for the integration and optimization of assembly product design and process planning.- Manufacturing Flexibility: A New Evaluation.- 2: Feature Based Modelling.- Integrated CAD and CAPP around feature recognition techniques.- Feature-State approach for operation sequence generation.- Machining features: integration of the machining function in the modelling of parts for automated process planning.- Expression and recognition of design intentions. The contributions of multimodality.- Integration of the machining point of view in the product modelling: the fixturing features.- From design to manufacturing of forged parts: automatic process planning for dies and parts.- 3: Automatic Modelling with Finite Element.- Tools for optimal or near-optimal sensors locations.- Fully integrated finite element models in the design and manufacture of glass products.- Maestro: a module dedicated to the integration of structural analysis within the design process.- Thickness optimization of beams and shells with large displacements.- Quality control of finite element analyses in shape optimization.- Methods and softwares for the automation of finite element analyses in 3D.- 4: Automatic Modelling of Mechanisms.- UsyCaMs: A software package for the interactive synthesis of cam mechanisms.- Workspace-oriented methodology for designing a parallel manipulator.- Design of roboticwork cells: synthesis and application.- A tool for robot design: feasible trajectory from a singularity.- Sensitivity analysis for optimisation of flexible multi-body systems.- Dynamic modelling of mechanisms. Qualifying of three integration schemes.- 5: Modelling of Processes.- Thermal analysis of orthogonal cutting. Simulation and Experiments.- A systematic approach to the surface modelling of forged parts.- Simplified stamping simulation: an aid for component design.- Mechanical simulation of machining.- Thermal modal analysis and modelling of machine-tools.- Fixture design process modelling.- 6: Modelling for Control and Measuring.- Integrating design and manufacturing by tolerance chart analysis.- The TTRE: Micro tolerancing Model for CAD-CAM Modelers.- Models for tolerancing process by considering mechanism flexibility.- Probe definition for inspection of mechanical parts by CMM.- Integrated design and manufacturing for precision mechanical components.- 7: Cam and Off-Line Programming.- Choice of machine tool configuration. Determination of real visibility.- Flank milling of ruled surface with additionally-five-axis CNC machine.- Synthesis of reconfigurable-Fixture support configurations for thin-walled objects.- Computer aided process planning in turning: ascendant design by features.- 8: Integrated Design and Cad-Cam Systems.- Proposals for a product model.- Towards declarative geometric modelling in mechanics.- Modeling product information in concurrent engineering environments.- Integration of design and manufacturing data models using step.- Template architecture and services for integrating CAD-CAM and machining in small companies.- Manufacturing capability modelling for concurrent product development.- Performance improvement of a surface-surface intersection method.- 9: Applications of Integrated Design and Manufacturing.- Integrated design of electromagnetic motors.- Optimisation of a structure for biaxial mechanical tests.- Hull design methodology for cross-country vehicles.- A methodology for the design of servo-systems dedicated to machine-tools.- Methodology for interactive design of a product and its assembly line.- Modelling and analysis of the stamping and clamping of a cylinder head gasket.- Author Index.

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