@Baccthesis{Donabauer2015,
  author    = {Melanie Donabauer},
  title     = {Automated Generation of Product Variants in Mechanical Engineering},
  year      = {2015},
  abstract  = {For companies there is often the need to offer several products that
	are similar in their core functionality but differ slightly from
	each other. The reason why is, that each customer may have different
	requirements for such products. There exists a process called clone-and-own
	where existing products are usually used as references to create
	new variants from them. The problem with that approach is, that it
	has to be done manually which contributes to the reason why clone-and-own
	is very error prone. Therefore technologies are required that simplify
	the process of creating a wide variety of similar products. Usually
	this is a topic in software engineering, but it is also of importance
	for mechanical engineering since it may be required to design and
	construct similar mechanical artefacts, e.g. variations of an existing
	robot with different arm lengths. There are little approaches that
	deal with these problems in the context of mechanical engineering.
	Therefore this thesis dwells on the issue whether it is possible
	to create several product variants from a mechanical artefact. For
	that purpose parsers will be implemented that take diverse files
	which describe parts of the mechanical product as input. These parsers
	will build an internal model and will write the relevant information
	back to a new file of the corresponding format. A crucial issue will
	be whether the produced output can be opened in the respective tools
	again and whether they may be reused for the parsers.},
  file      = {:BSc Theses\\2015 Melanie Donabauer\\MelanieDonabauer-AutomatedGenerationOfProductVariantsInMechanicalEngineering-preprint.pdf:PDF},
  owner     = {AK117794},
  timestamp = {2015.09.21},
}