Materials Information for CAD/CAM

Preface1 Introduction and Reader's Guide Materials and Design Design and Manufacture How This Book is Organized2 Materials Selection Introduction Practical Issues Concurrent Engineering Data for Design The Ashby Methods Five More Techniques Selection Extends over Time From Data to Information3 Representing Information Representation and Integration Materials Information Relationships and Adequacy Naming Information Resource Dictionaries McCarthy's Data Thesaurus4 Data Interchange Technologies Background Item Based Formats Table Based Formats Conclusions on Format Types History of Data Interchange CALS and SGML Techno-Economic Materials Data Open Distributed Processing5 Decisions and Selection Background The Selection Problem Theorems and Pitfalls Materials Selection Proposal Summary6 Information Quality Background Quality and Data Interchange Survey of Studies of Data Quality Data Quality Levels Data Reporting and Identification Quality Indicators Organizations, Staff and Procedures Conclusions on Information Quality7 Knowledge-Based Systems Introduction Models: Types of Expert System Fragility Tutorial Systems Big Systems The Future8 CAD/CAM Environments Introduction Trends in Design Environments Capricious and Stable Information Creating Information Components Foretelling the FutureGlossaryReferencesIndex