Article ID Journal Published Year Pages File Type
10353261 Computers in Industry 2005 14 Pages PDF
Abstract
Besides reduced development times, the constantly growing pressure of competition and the permanent vicissitude and shortened product life cycles due to customer-oriented product variants require a strong decrease of planning and engineering times. The Digital Factory, a virtual representation of a real factory based on an integrated data model, provides an important contribution to attain this goal. In near future, the company-internal Digital Factory has to be expanded to the real inter-company plant production processes. These are distributed engineering processes in a co-operation project with globally located partners. This involves the support of security and trustworthy networks in co-operative engineering. Next to the management of the high volumes of data exchanged, the efficiency of the engineers work has to be increased in co-operation projects. In this paper, new methodologies for computer-supported co-operative development engineering (CSCDE) are developed. Environmental constraints for a successful application of CSCDE are identified and classified. Based on these methodologies, a CSCDE software architecture for relationship management and secure exchange of Digital Factory data between globally located engineering and development partners using XML and Web Service technologies is presented.
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