Better understanding of product life cycles leads to process improvements and to reduced total product costs, better product quality, improved supply chain efficiency, and better rebuilding and recycling choices. This book provides industrial users, as well as the broad R&D, community with an understanding of the principles behind the PROMISE technologies, their successful implementation in the PROMISE demonstrators, and their enormous potential to improve competitive advantage across the industrial spectrum.|Better understanding of product life cycles leads to process improvements and to reduced total product costs, better product quality, improved supply chain efficiency, and better rebuilding and recycling choices. This book provides industrial users, as well as the broad R&D, community with an understanding of the principles behind the PROMISE technologies, their successful implementation in the PROMISE demonstrators, and their enormous potential to improve competitive advantage across the industrial spectrum.