Cover -- Contents -- Preface -- 1 Introduction -- 1.1 Design Reuse What and Why -- 1.1.1 Types of design reuse -- 1.1.2 The importance of design reuse -- 1.2 Product Conceptual Design -- 1.2.1 Product family design -- 1.3 Major Issues in Design Reuse -- 1.3.1 Design reuse process -- 1.3.2 Product information modeling -- 1.3.3 Product information analysis -- 1.3.4 Design synthesis -- 1.3.5 Solution evaluation -- 1.4 Engineering Design Reuse Applications -- 1.4.1 Design reuse in software engineering -- 1.4.2 Design reuse in mechanical and electro-mechanical engineering -- 1.4.3 Design reuse in manufacturing -- 1.5 Barriers to Design Reuse -- 1.6 Summary -- 2 Design Reuse Systems and Enabling Tools -- 2.1 Engineering Design Reuse Approaches -- 2.1.1 Case-based reasoning -- 2.1.2 Catalog-based design -- 2.1.3 Modular design -- 2.1.4 Adaptable design -- 2.1.5 Expert systems -- 2.1.6 Innovative design using TRIZ -- 2.2 Reasoning in Design Reuse -- 2.2.1 Machine learning -- 2.2.2 Data mining -- 2.2.3 Design structure matrix -- 2.2.4 Artificial neural networks -- 2.2.5 Genetic algorithms -- 2.2.6 Agent-based method -- 2.3 Summary -- 3 Product Information Modeling -- 3.1 Data, Information and Knowledge -- 3.2 Information Modeling State-Of-The-Art Review -- 3.2.1 Content of information model -- 3.2.2 Modeling languages -- 3.2.3 Taxonomies -- 3.2.4 Database system and web-based environment -- 3.3 Function-Based Product Information Model -- 3.3.1 A multiple facet product information model -- 3.3.2 Representation of function using key element vector -- 3.3.3 Function taxonomies -- 3.3.4 An illustrative example -- 3.4 Summary -- 4 Design of Product Platform -- 4.1 Role of Product Platform -- 4.2 Product Platform and Product Family Design -- 4.2.1 A top-down perspective -- 4.2.2 A bottom-up perspective -- 4.3 Computational Tools for Product Architecture Building -- 4.3.1 QFD-based approach -- 4.3.2 DSM-based approach -- 4.3.3 Heuristic and quantitative approaches -- 4.4 Product Architecture Building Using Self-Organizing Map -- 4.4.1 Introduction of SOM -- 4.4.2 Function clustering based on SOM -- 4.4.3 A case study -- 4.4.4 Evaluation of the SOM method -- 4.5 Other Relevant Issues in Product Platform Design -- 4.5.1 Extraction of KCs as performance criteria -- 4.5.2 Formation of component catalog -- 4.5.3 Establishment of mapping route using correlation matrices -- 4.6 Summary -- 5 Optimization in Product Design -- 5.1 Introduction -- 5.1.1 Weighted sum method -- 5.1.2 Goal programming -- 5.1.3 Multi-level programming/rank ordering -- 5.1.4 Genetic algorithms -- 5.2 Automated Design Synthesis -- 5.2.1 Configuration design -- 5.2.2 Design synthesis techniques -- 5.3 Multi-objective Struggle Genetic Algorithm Design Synthesis -- 5.3.1 Problem formulation -- 5.3.2 The MOSGA algorithm -- 5.3.3 Implementation of MOSGA in product configuration design -- 5.3.4 Precautions and limitations -- 5.4 Post-optimal Solution Selection -- 5.5 A Case Study -- 5.5.1 Experience-based design -- 5.5.2 Product design using the design reuse approach -- 5.5.3 Comparison of the two methods -- 5.6 Summary -- 6 Cost Estimation in Product Development -- 6.1 Introduction -- 6.2 Product Development Cost -- 6.2.1 Cost stru.