Product design: To simplify complex construction and development processes several CAtechniques
like Computer Aided Design are used, strongly influenced by the developments
of information technology. Thus the trend towards more applicability applied to the field
of simulation techniques, as well as the trend towards a more wide-spread standardization
of interfaces and interlinking of technical system has increasing effects on the construction
process. As a result of extrapolation, in the future the meaning of digital mockup, VR
technology (virtual reality) and RP technology (rapid prototyping by 3D-Plotting) [R 98]
[KW97] will even increase.