Presents advances in the integration and the optimization of product design and manufacturing systems. This book is of interest to engineers, researchers, academic staff, and postgraduate students interested in integrated design and manufacturing in mechanical engineering.

1 Optimization of Product Design Process.- The Novel Use of a Capability Maturity Model to Evaluate the Mechanical Design Process.- Computer Support for Insightful Engineering Design Based on Generic and Rigorous Principles of Symbolic Algebra.- Modelling Product Representations Used in Automobile Body Design.- Sequencing for Process Planning by Genetic Algorithm.- A Tool for Verifying the Local Quality of a 3D F.E. Analysis in Design.- Design of Wire Harnesses for Mass Customization.- A Unified Jacobian-Torsor Model for Analysis in Computer Aided Tolerancing.- A Proposal of Structure for a Variational Modeler Based on Functional Specifications.- Inertial Tolerancing in the Case of Assembled Products.- An Interactive Decision Support System for Unidirectional Tolerancing.- Improvement of the Simulation Tools Dedicated to Composite Structures Subjected to Crash Loads.- On the Kinematic Calibration of a Stewart Platform.- The Isoconditioning Loci of Planar Three-Dof Parallel Manipulators.- Development of an Optimised Automotive Axle.- Self-Loosening Model for Bolted Assemblies under Transverse Stresses.- Crashworthiness Optimization Using a Surrogate Approach by Stochastic Response Surface.- Multidisciplinary Optimization of Composite Laminates with Resin Transfer Molding.- 2 Optimization of Manufacturing Systems.- Proactive Support for Conceptual Design Synthesis of Sheet Metal Components.- Fuzzy Volumes: Principles and Application in the NC Machining.- A Normalized Product Structure Model for Manufacturing: Definition and implementation of the TMC concept, adaptation to the new technologies of material cutting.- Orientation in Layer-Based Machining.- Contribution to the Generation of Tool Paths in a Cam System.- A Tool-Wear Investigation in Hard Turning of Various WorkMaterials with CBN Tools.- Advanced Numerical Simulation of the Crimping Process of Electric Connectors.- Surface Integrity in Hard Turning.- Technological Parameter Calculation and Stretch Forming Process Control of 3D Profile Parts.- Application of the Stability Lobes Theory to Milling of Thin Workpieces: Experimental approach.- Energy Assessment and Cutting Tool Behavior in Machining.- A Study and Analysis of Machine Tool Errors with Static and Dynamic Measurements.- Evaluation of Machine Geometry: Presentation of an innovative method with a Laser Tracker.- Simulation of Regenerative Vibrations and Surface Generation in Flank Milling: Application to high speed machining.- 3 Methodological Aspects of Integrated Design and Manufacturing.- Feature Shape Recognition Tools Dedicated to a Design for Assembly Methodology.- An a Priori Adaptive 3D Advancing Front Mesh Generator Integrated to Solid Modeling.- A Collaborative Tool for the Visualization of Scientific Simulation Results.- Systems Engineering Used in Products and Manufacturing Systems Development: Case of automotive industry.- Performances in Engineering Changes Management.- Proposal of a New Design Approach Integrating the Concept of the Working Situation.- Towards Identification and Formalisation of Knowledge in Computational Mechanics.- Toward New Methods and Tools to Foster Product/Process Innovation.- Reliable Design of Thin Axisymmetric Shells Using Partial Factor Calibration.- Sources of Error in the Design Process.- A Model-Based Framework for Robust Design.- Structural Design of Uncertain Mechanical Systems Using Interval Arithmetic.- Integration of Reliability-Based Design Optimization within CAD an Finite Element Models.- Planning Complex Engineer-To-Order Products.- A Framework for Integrated Productand Process Design.- A Tool for the Design Process Technical Control.- Tools for Dynamic Sharing of Collaborative Design Information.- An Internet Based Quality Tool for Customers to Improve Product Development.- Emergence of a Virtual Human Behaviour in a VR Environment: A multi-agent approach.