A DE-CENTRALISED METHODOLOGY FOR DISTRIBUTED MANAGEMENT OF THE EVOLUTION OF ENGINEERING DESIGN KNOWLEDGE
This paper looks at the problem of collaborative engineering design generation and management at the conceptual stage, for complex products developed jointly between a large network of dis-similar enterprises. The appearance of this issue in engineering design is a result of the supply chain and virtual enterprise oriented industry of today that, in addition to de-centralisation, also demands faster time to market and accurate cost analysis from the concept stage. Current tools and techniques cannot fulfil this requirement due to the lack of coherent inter-enterprise collaboration and a lack of downstream manufacturing knowledge available at the concept design stage. In order to alleviate this, a number of techniques were tested including client-server and peer to peer systems for communication, and various techniques for knowledge management and sharing including PLM systems and expert systems. As a result of the system testing and the extensive literature review several novel techniques were proposed and tested to improve the coherent management of knowledge and enable inter-enterprise product development. The methodology has been evaluated by industrial case studies of automotive system development.
Engineering knowledge management distributed design enterprise collaboration.
James Gao Hayder Aziz
Department of Manufacturing, Cranfield University, Bedford, MK43 OAL, UK
国际会议
5th International Conference on e-Engineering & Digital Enterprise Technology(第5届e工程及数字企业国际学术会议)
贵阳
英文
226-230
2006-08-16（万方平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）