Advances in Design examines recent advances and innovations in product design paradigms, methods, tools and applications. It presents fifty-two selected papers which were presented at the 14th CIRP International Design Seminar held in May 2004 as well as the invited keynote papers. Dr. Waguih ElMaraghy was the conference Chair and Dr. Hoda ElMaraghy was on the program committee. The International Institution for Production Research (CIRP), founded in 1951, is the top production engineering research college worldwide. The CIRP is subdivided into Scientific and Technical Committees (STC's) which are responsible for coordinating cutting-edge research as well as holding highly regarded annual international seminars to disseminate the results. The CIRP "e;Design"e; STC meeting is the forum in which the latest developments in the design field are presented and discussed.

Next Generation Design.- Economic Growth, Business Innovation and Engineering Design.- Directions of Next Generation Product Development.- ‘What-if’ Design as an Integrative Method in Product Design.- Self Organization in Design.- Towards a Design Methodology for Self-optimizing Systems.- Design Knowledge and Functional Design.- Reusing Design Knowledge.- Structural and Functional Analysis for Assemblies.- Knowledge Management for a Cooperative Design System.- Innovative and Conceptual Design.- AdaptEx: Extending Product Life Cycles through Strategic Product Upgrades.- Product Genetic Engineering.- Gene Engineering-based Innovation of Manufactured Products.- Use of Constraint Programming for Design.- Model Infrastructures and Human Interaction in a Stereo Table Environment.- Inventive Design Applied to Injection Molding.- Design Frameworks.- Supporting Problem Expression within a Co-evolutionary Design Framework.- A Four-stage Approximation Strategy for the Exploration of a Mechanical Concept.- A Framework of Product Styling Platform Using Case-based Styling Indexing.- A Systematic Design Approach for Reconfigurable Manufacturing Systems.- Crosstalk: Collaborative Framework for Electro-mechanical Product Design.- Integrated Architecture of Geometric Models and Design Intentions.- Design Management.- Management of Engineering Design Process in Collaborative Situation.- Requirements Management for the Extended Automotive Enterprise.- Federated Product Data Management in Multi-company Projects.- STEP PLCS for Design and In-service Product Data Management.- Value Chain Structure and Correlation Between Design Structure Matrices.- Integration of Cost Models in Design and Manufacturing.- Product Life Cycle.- Life Cycle Product Support in the Digital Age.- Total QualityManagement and Process Modeling for PLM in SME.- Selection and Evaluation of PLM Tools for Competitive Product Development.- Collaborative Engineering Design.- Efficient Product Data Sharing in Collaboration Life Cycles.- Design Iterations in a Geographically Distributed Design Process.- A Cluster-based Approach for Collaborative Design Process Analysis.- Workspaces and Cooperation Notions in the Design Process.- Pitfalls of Engineering Change.- Modeling of Manufacturing Process Complexity.- Human Modeling in Industrial Design.- Design Intent and Tolerancing.- On the Merging of Geometric Models Based on Hierarchical Context.- Haptic Virtual Prototyping for Design and Assessment of Gear-shifts.- Predicting Design Quality through Sensitivity Modeling.- Computer Aided Tolerancing - Solver and Post Processor Analysis.- A New Method for Integrated Design and Tolerancing.- Contact and Channel Model for Pairs of Working Surfaces.- Modeling and Design for Manufacturing.- Manufacturing-driven Design of Sculptured Surfaces.- Extended Design for X for Digital Consumer Products.- Development of Integrated Design System for Structural Design of Machine Tools.- The Structured Design of a Reconfigurable Control Process.