Guest Editorial

摘要

In 1989 a small group of researchers gathered at Jerusalem, Israel under the sponsorship of CIRP (International Academy for Production Engineering) to address the emerging problem of computer-aided tolerancing (CAT), which is situated prominently at the interface between product design and manufacturing. Since then, such CIRP CAT meetings have been held as working seminars and conferences at an approximate frequency of once in 2 yr. The latest edition of the CIRP CAT conference was the 13th in this series and was held at Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China during May 11-14, 2014. We are pleased to bring a selection of ten papers that were presented at that conference to this special issue. These papers cover a wide spectrum of current, international research in CAT.