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The book introduces the reader to game-changing ways of building and utilizing Internet-based services related to design and manufacture activities through the cloud. In a broader sense, CBDM refers to a new product realization model that enables collective open innovation and rapid product development with minimum costs through social networking and negotiation platforms between service providers and consumers. It is a type of parallel and distributed system consisting of a collection of inter-connected physical and virtualized service pools of design and manufacturing resources as well as intelligent search capabilities for design and manufacturing solutions. Practicing engineers and decision makers will learn how to strategically position their product development operations for success in a globalized interconnected world.

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Product Development in the Socio-sphere.- Cloud-based Design.- Cloud-based Manufacturing.- IT Infrastructures and Architectures for Cloud-based Design and Manufacturing.- Business Models and Implementation Strategies for Cloud-based Design and Manufacturing.

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Professor Schaefer has more than twenty years experience in computer-aided design, engineering and manufacturing, both in industry and academia. He has been an active member of the design communities in the US, the UK and Germany. Over the past ten years, Prof. Schaefer has conducted research on product modeling, variant design, product life-cycle management, design-with-manufacture integration, standardized product data exchange and digital and virtual engineering. His current research focus concerns the highly topical areas of cloud computing-based design and manufacture (CBDM), a game-changing strategy and technology push to enable next generation computer-aided product creation in globally distributed and collaborative settings.

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