Collaborative Product Design and Manufacturing Methodologies and Applications

- An Adaptable Service-based Framework for Distributed Service Realization

- A Web-based Intelligent Collaborative System for Engineering Design

- A Shared VE for Collaborative Product Development in Manufacturing Enterprises

- A 'Plug-and-Play' Computing Environment for Collaborative Product Design and Manufacturing across an Extended Enterprise

- Cooperative Design in Building Construction

- A Fine-grain and Feature-oriented Product Database for Collaborative Engineering

- A Web-based Framework for Distributed and Collaborative Manufacturing of Engineering Parts

- Wise-ShopFloor: A Portal toward Collaborative Manufacturing

- Real-time Distributed Shop

- Floor Scheduling: An Agent-based Service-oriented Framework Leveraging Design Process Related Intellectual Capital - A Key to Enhancing Enterprise Agility Manufacturing

- Information Organization in Product Lifecycle Management

- Semantic Interoperability to Support Collaborative Product Development

- A Proposal of Distributed Virtual Factory for Collaborative Production

W. D. Li obtained his PhD degree from the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the National University of Singapore in January 2002. He taught at Xidian University (China) as a lecturer from 1995-1998. From 2001 - June 2005, he was a research scientist at the Singapore Institute of Manufacturing Technology. From July 2005, he has worked at the IMRC (Innovative Manufacturing Research Centre) at the University of Bath, UK as a Research Fellow. His research interests include collaborative product design and manufacturing, application of intelligent technologies in product design and manufacturing. CAD/CAPP/CAM, 3D geometric and feature-based modelling and applications, and design methodologies. In these areas, he led various research and industrial projects as principle investigator or co-principle investigator. He has published more than 30 research papers in international journals and presented them at conferences. He is an invited reviewer for a number of international journals in manufacturing. He won the 2002 Norman A. Dudley Award for the best paper published in the International Journal of Product Research together with Dr. S. K. Ong and Professor A. Y. C. Nee. His co-authored monograph specializing in concurrent and collaborative engineering is to be published by World Scientific in 2005.



S. K. Ong has been an associate professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the National University of Singapore since 1996 which is also where she obtained her PhD in the same year. Her research interests are intelligent and distributed manufacturing systems, computer-aided set-up planning, life cycle engineering, environment impact assessment, and more recently, virtual and augmented reality applications in manufacturing. She has published two books and over 80 international refereed journal and conference papers. She was the recipient together with Dr. W. D. Li and Professor A. Y. C. Nee of the NormanA.