F.J.A.M. van Houten

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present a maintenance framework that shows management cycles of maintenance activities during the product life cycle, identifying technical issues of maintenance and discuss the advances of technologies supporting the change in the role of maintenance.

TL;DR: The conclusion is that feature-based design is still in its infancy, and that more research is needed for a better support of the design process and better integration with manufacturing, although major advances have already been made.

TL;DR: The purpose is to show that integration, from different points of view, is a major issue and that increasing the level of abstraction in the description of systems can help to overcome the integration challenges, and concepts for an integration framework are proposed.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors present a tool that assists the designer in evaluating worst case quality of assembly after tolerances have been specified, using a virtual plan fragment table, based on an analogy to the plan fragment tables used in degrees of freedom (DOF) analysis.

TL;DR: In this article, a Virtual Maintenance System (VMMS) is developed to support the activities mentioned above, which makes it possible to relate predicted product behaviour and specific signals, which can be detected by sensors and can be used to avoid catastrophic failure.