Overview to the Codes Project: Computational Models in Product Life Cycle –Codes

This report collects the history and the milestones of the Codes research project, briefly introduces the product deliverables, and discusses about the project implementation, outcome, and the lessons learned. The report does not provide a deep analysis of the results of each project task. That would have been far too difficult task in the given schedule, due to the wide scope and heterogeneous content of the project. Some conclusions about the findings and trends are provided together with discussion about the future work. The result and success of the Codes project can be said to be good based on the project deliverables and the understanding of the subject that was gathered during the project. But the most important outcome of the project was that there is definitely room for the further research on the fundamental research topics of the project: simulation and design tool integration in the product process and the management of the simulation-based product life cycle process.