Data Mining for Design and Manufacturing

This text brings together research and applications for data mining within design and manufacturing. The aim of the book is: to clarify the integration of data mining in engineering design and manufacturing; to present a wide range of domains to which data mining can be applied; to demonstrate the essential need for symbiotic collaboration of expertise in design and manufacturing, data mining, and information technology; and to illustrate how to overcome central problems in design and manufacturing environments. The book also presents formal tools required to extract valuable information from design and manufacturing data, and facilitates interdisciplinary problem solving for enhanced decision making.