Integrated Design Engineering

Prof. Dr.-Ing. Prof.h.c. Dr.h.c. SándorVajna, born 1952, received both his Diploma degree and his Doctor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering from Karlsruhe University (now Karlsruhe Institute of Technology), Germany. He has 12 years of industrial experience in research & development, management and consulting in connection with Product Development, Design Methodology, CAx, Process Reengineering, CIM/PLM, and Information Technologies. From 1994 to 2017, he was head of the Chair of Information Technologies in Mechanical Engineering, University of Magdeburg, Germany.

• Part I: Basics.- Procedures and Models of Integrated Product Development (IPD).- Basics of Integrated Design Engineering (IDE).- Part II: Attributes in IDE.- Attributes and their Context.- Product Attributes.- Fulfilment Attributes.- Economic Attributes.- Part III: Integrations within IDE.- Area Integration.- Integration of Organisations and Processes.- IDE Holistic Procedure Model.- Knowledge Integration.- Application and Information Integration.- Part IV: Trans-sectional Functions.- Scenario Techniques.- Marketing.- Methods for IDE.- Mechatronics.- Value Creation and Business Planning.- Economical Aspects in IDE.

“The book presents a wide-ranging collection of chapters on diverse aspects of product development, providing a thorough explanation … with especially good material on many aspects of product planning and integration. … Overall, the English translation is an important contribution to the canon of work on engineering product development, providing both a comprehensive textbook to form the basis for taught courses and a useful reference work for the practising engineer and (especially) engineering manager.” (Journal of Engineering Design, October 27, 2021)