Abstract: Collaborative engineering in product development is one of the most important requirements for making this Virtual Enterprise real, competitive, and widely implemented within organizations. Collaborative Engineering is a virtual methodology that tends to bring to upstream knowledge professions involved in downstream design as preparation of manufacture, production and marketing. It involves effective participation of different professions specialists in the earliest stages of conception. Mechatronic Integration technology is playing an increasingly important role in popularizing the concept of end-to-end, cross-functional design. With Mechatronic Integration modules, two engineering departments share program access and intelligence, and become more productive as a consequence.

Brief Biography of the Speaker:
Badea Lepadatescu is currently an Associate Professor at the Faculty of Technological Engineering and Industrial Management of Transylvania University of Brasov, Romania. He obtained his doctoral degree in 1998 in the area of machining through superfinishing process. After he graduated he worked five years as design engineer at Roman truck factory in the field of manufacturing processes where he designed many devices and special machine tools especially for superfinishing process. Started on 1982 he worked as research engineer at Transilvania University of Brasov, and after 1997 he is teaching at Department of Manufacturing Engineering. His main academic interests include Tolerance and Dimensional Control, Manufacturing Engineering Processes, Automation Processes, and Renewable Energy Sources. The research accomplishments are reflected through publications in a five books and authored or co-authored over 120 papers published at international conferences. He has extensive experience in both experimental and theoretical research work having more than 50 contracts with factories to design and produce machine tools for machining processes. Also in the field of Renewable Energy Sources together with a team he made two wind turbines, one with horizontal axis for taking water, and one with vertical axis to produce electric energy. He has been speaker to international conferences, has moderated forums, organized symposia, workshops and sessions at major international conferences.