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multidisciplinary design teams. These trends will create the need for environments

that allow, for example:

• The integration of electrical-CAD tools with mechanical·CAD tools. Chapter 6

describes a domain unified computer aided design environment (DUCADE)

that facilitates multidisciplinary concurrent

design for consumer electronic

products.

• The creation of intelligent

agents

for Internet-based design. An example might

be an agent for plastic injection-mold

design (Urabe and Wright, 1997).

Internet-based

design environments allow the original part designer to import

information on specific "downstream"

processes-in

this case, how to fabri-

cate negative mold halves. Information could also include data on shrinkage

factors, recommended

draft angles for the mold, and snap fit geometries

(Brock,

2000).