Overcoming the challenges of product development and engineering changes in a distributed engineering environment
This paper presents a concept to improve the management of developing complex products in a distributed engineering environment. It will show a product data driven engineering workflow that is able to manage engineering tasks across company boarders. This approach is based on parameters, presenting the smallest product model element, and a user category concept to address tasks to the right persons at the right time. In addition, a concept for an architecture of a web-based distributed workspace will be given.
Interesting paper to read. Appreciate if you can explain why the information is locked when someone is working on the data in the distributed workspace. Many thanks
Interesting paper. Have you made any estimates on how much time it would require a company to implement (put into use) the approach presented in this paper? Thank you.
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Thanks for your comment. The workspace structure has been influenced by the capabilities of the featured PLM system. It was more practical or useful to realise the concept within the provided system environment, to avoid also some kind of interfacing. Agents may be a possibility but its integration to the system has to be checked.
Thanks for your inquiry. The answer is simple, just to guarantee consistence. It should be avoided that two people change at the same time the same information. Otherwise, this would lead to inconsistencies or lost work (the one has won who updated at last).
Thanks for your inquiry. I can not specify a fixed time as this depends also on the applied software. The prototype implementation corresponded to a marketable system, that is on the feature list of a new system version. To introduce this to the business processes should not take too long, if the system is generally in use. Otherwise, if customizing or integration is necessary this would cause much more efforts.
A good study. When the data change, how to input those data, automatically or manually? If automatically, how to carry out? In addition, what does it mean by PDM?
Thanks your your inquiry. First of all, PDM stands for Product Data Management. The methodology sets up on such a system and its provided functions. Therefore, the data management is based on the check-in/check-out mechanismns of such a system.
Thank you for this interesting paper. I just want to ask you about constraints. What was your constraints. And what is the deficiencies of your methodology? Thanks Ebubekir
Hi, thanks for the great paper and contribution, the parameter-based solution sounds innovative and effective, but i have one question regarding to the workspace structure:
have you considered using agent-based distributed workspace? since the agent-based system is more suitable for dynamically changing environment such as PLM process, what are the benefits of using web-based strucutre in your case?
thanks.