13 GLOSSARY 117MULTIDISCIPLINARY DESIGN TEAMS. THESE TRENDS WILL CRE...
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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).