TABLE OF CONTENTS Fr d ric No l [1] , Lionel Roucoules [2] , and Denis Teissandier [3]
| Abstract: | Collaborative design efficiency expects to go further than concurrent engineering in breaking down sequential organizations: in concurrent engineering experts must act on the product as soon as possible but their actions constrain the next ones. To collaborate, the experts must share these constraints with a common language about the product. Here, a new product model dedicated to collaborative design is proposed. Some examples and usage sequences highlight the main benefits in a collaborative context. The model is used in the French IPPOP project (Integration of Product Process and Organization for Performance Enhancement in Engineering) where a framework dedicated to innovative collaborative design is under construction. |
| Key words: | Concurrent engineering, Product model, Collaborative design, Multi-expertise |
[1] 3S, Universit de Grenoble, Domaine Universitaire - BP n 53 - 38041 Grenoble Cedex 9 France ;
[2] LASMIS, Universit Technologique de Troyes, 12 rue Marie Curie BP 2060 - 10010 Troyes cedex, France
[3] LMP, Universit Bordeaux 1, 351, cours de La lib ration 33405 - Talence Cedex, Franc e
CAD systems are mainly based on geometric models [1-2]. The current trend is to attach more and more technological information to form features, but these geometric models remain centralized and imply to be fully defined before any other expertise starts. Design activity remains sequential and is still led by geometric modelling. In the last decade, technological product models [3-8] were proposed to enlarge the scope of CAD...
