Table of Contents

1 Significance of Engineering Databases.- 1.1 The Situation.- 1.2 The Solution.- 1.3 The Architecture of an Engineering Database System.- 1.4 Organizational Procedures.- 1.5 Further Reading.- 2 Database Technology.- 2.1 Concepts and Terminology.- 2.2 Data Organization and Manipulation: Current Status.- 2.3 Database Systems for Engineering Applications: A New Focus.- 2.4 Data Organization and Manipulation: Taking Care of the New Focus.- 3 Utilization of Engineering Databases.- 3.1 Motivation.- 3.2 Database Schema Design.- 3.3 Version Management.- 3.4 Generating and Entering Data.- 3.5 Archiving Database Objects.- 3.6 Data Interchange.- 3.7 Application Programming.- 3.8 Further Reading.- 4 Case Studies.- 4.1 VLSI Design.- 4.2 Software Engineering.- 4.3 Further Reading.