| Summary: | The collection of papers in this book comprises the proceedings of the 23rd CIRP Design Conference held between March 11th and March 13th 2013 at the Ruhr-Universitt̃ Bochum in Germany. The event was organized in cooperation with the German Academic Society for Product Development <U+0013> WiGeP. The focus of the conference was on <U+00bb>Smart Product Engineering±, covering two major aspects of modern product creation: the development of intelligent (<U+001c>smart ) products as well as the new (<U+001c>smart ) approach of engineering, explicitly taking into account consistent systems integration. Throughout the 98 papers contained in these proceedings, a range of topics are covered, amongst them the different facets and aspects of what makes a product or an engineering solution <U+001c>smart . In addition, the conference papers investigate new ways of engineering for production planning and collaboration towards Smart Product Engineering. The publications provide a solid insight into the pressing issues of modern digital product creation facing increasing challenges in a rapidly changing industrial environment. They also give implicit advice how a <U+001c>smart product or engineering solution (processes, methods and tools) needs to be designed and implemented in order to become successful.
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