These proceedings represent trends in Product Development concerning industrial vendors and scientific research aspects. Coverage includes the following topics are covered: Design Theory, Product Design, Requirements, Collaborative Engineering, Complex Design, Mechatronics, Reverse Engineering, Virtual Prototyping, CAE, KBE and PLM. The papers presented in this book show that answers can only be composed out of a variety of solutions where psychological, economical and technical research results are taken into account.

Prof. Dr.-Ing. F.-L. Krause is head of the division "Virtual Product Creation" at the Fraunhofer Institute for Production Systems and Design Technology (IPK) in Berlin. He also has a chair for "Industrial Information Technology" at the Institute for Machine Tools and Factory Management at the Technical University of Berlin.