Data mining for design and manufacturing: methods and applications

Data Mining for Design and Manufacturing: Methods and Applications is the first book that brings together research and applications of data mining within design and manufacturing. Book objectives are 1) to clarify the integration of data mining in engineering design and manufacturing, 2) to present a wide range of domains to which data mining can be applied, 3) to demonstrate the essential need for symbiotic collaboration of expertise in design and manufacturing, data mining and information technology, 4) 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.