The Design Lab belongs to the CNPq research group on Systems Design and Modeling, Control and Decision Support, coordinated by Prof. Paulo Eigi Miyagi. Particularly, Deisgn Lab, coordinated by Prof. José Reinaldo Silva, directs its interest to four areas of mechatronics and systems design: design lyfe cycle, design formalism, intelligent design and manufacturing design. A more detailed description could be found in the link bellow ("D-Lab main Wikki"). Associated to the internal group interests, there are projects that envolves one or more of the group interests. Current projects are: itSIMPLE (Knowledge Engineering Environment to treat requirements and analysis exploring deeply the intelligent planning approach); GHENeSys? (a general design environment that uses High Level and Enhanced Petri Nets to the analysis and design of requirements, workflow, and flow of information or items in production systems); SMITI (a based study, not fully concentrated in a unique environment about the flux of information in Information Systems associated to manufacturing production or services); LEAL (an international association of design groups to promote information learning systems applyed to engineering automation, finished in 2007).