@article{Schaal_JED_1993,
  title = {Design concurrent calculation: A CAD- and data-integrated approach},
  booktitle = {Journal of Engineering Design},
  abstract = {Besides functional regards, product design demands increasingly more for further reaching considerations. Quality alone cannot suffice anymore to compete in the market; design for manufacturability, for assembly, for recycling, etc., are well-known keywords. Those can largely be reduced to the necessity of design for costs. This paper focuses on a CAD-based approach to design concurrent calculation. It will discuss how, in the meantime well-established, tools like feature technology, knowledge-based systems, and relational databases can be blended into one coherent concept to achieve an entirely CAD- and data-integrated cost information tool. This system is able to extract data from the CAD-system, combine it with data about the company specific manufacturing environment, and subsequently autonomously evaluate manufacturability aspects and costs of the given CAD-model. Within minutes the designer gets quantitative in-formation about the major cost sources of his/her design. Additionally, some alternative methods for approximating manu-facturing times from empirical data, namely neural networks and local weighted regression, are introduced.},
  volume = {4},
  pages = {71-85},
  year = {1993},
  note = {clmc},
  slug = {schaal_jed_1993},
  author = {Schaal, S. and Ehrlenspiel, K.},
  crossref = {p862}
}