Preparing undergraduate students for work in virtual product development teams

2005 ◽  
Vol 44 (4) ◽  
pp. 357-376 ◽  
Author(s):  
Roman Žavbi ◽  
Jože Tavčar
Keyword(s):  
Product Development ◽  
Undergraduate Students ◽  
Development Teams ◽  
Virtual Product Development ◽  
Virtual Product ◽  
Product Development Teams

Can You Hear Me Now? Communication in Virtual Product Development Teams

2009 ◽  
Vol 26 (2) ◽  
pp. 139-155 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mitzi M. Montoya ◽  
Anne P. Massey ◽  
Yu-Ting Caisy Hung ◽  
C. Brad Crisp
Keyword(s):  
Product Development ◽  
Development Teams ◽  
Virtual Product Development ◽  
Virtual Product ◽  
Product Development Teams

Virtual Product Development in University-Enterprise Partnership

2010 ◽  
Vol 23 (3) ◽  
pp. 43-59 ◽  
Author(s):  
George Dragoi ◽  
Anca Draghici ◽  
Sebastian Marius Rosu ◽  
Costel Emil Cotet
Keyword(s):  
Product Development ◽  
Virtual Enterprise ◽  
Team Development ◽  
Working Environments ◽  
Development Teams ◽  
Critical Issues ◽  
Virtual Product Development ◽  
High Level ◽  
General Architecture ◽  
Virtual Product

Development teams involved in product development are often geographically and temporally distributed, and there is a high level of outsourcing in product development efforts. Enterprises give rise to a special type of virtual enterprise, in which each company maintains the greatest flexibility and business independence. This paper presents a vision of next generation engineering working environments and describes a core information technology on which future systems can be built. Cooperative processes are not the automatic results of implementing collaborative, real-time communication technologies, but the result of a carefully designed and systematically maintained virtual team development plan. This paper discusses the critical issues of the virtual product development and builds a general architecture of an experimental platform for training, research and consulting in the new digital economy, located in the PREMINV center from University “POLITEHNICA” of Bucharest.

scholarly journals Leveraging 3D geometric knowledge in the product lifecycle based on industrial standards

2017 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 54-67 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alain Pfouga ◽  
Josip Stjepandić
Keyword(s):  
Supply Chain ◽  
Product Development ◽  
Data Exchange ◽  
Multidisciplinary Teams ◽  
Product Lifecycle ◽  
Product Data ◽  
Primary Focus ◽  
Virtual Product Development ◽  
Digital Enterprise ◽  
Virtual Product

Abstract With their practical introduction by the 1970s, virtual product data have emerged to a primary technical source of intelligence in manufacturing. Modern organization have since then deployed and continuously improved strategies, methods and tools to feed the individual needs of their business domains, multidisciplinary teams, and supply chain, mastering the growing complexity of virtual product development. As far as product data are concerned, data exchange, 3D visualization, and communication are crucial processes for reusing manufacturing intelligence across lifecycle stages. Research and industry have developed several CAD interoperability, and visualization formats to uphold these product development strategies. Most of them, however, have not yet provided sufficient integration capabilities required for current digital transformation needs, mainly due to their lack of versatility in the multi-domains of the product lifecycle and primary focus on individual product descriptions. This paper analyses the methods and tools used in virtual product development to leverage 3D CAD data in the entire life cycle based on industrial standards. It presents a set of versatile concepts for mastering exchange, aware and unaware visualization and collaboration from single technical packages fit purposely for various domains and disciplines. It introduces a 3D master document utilizing PDF techniques, which fulfills requirements for electronic discovery and enables multi-domain collaboration and long-term data retention for the digital enterprise. Highlights With their practical introduction by the 1970s, virtual product data have emerged to a primary technical source of intelligence in manufacturing. Modern organization have since then deployed and continuously improved strategies, methods and tools to feed the individual needs of their business domains, multidisciplinary teams, and supply chain, mastering the growing complexity of virtual product development. As far as product data are concerned, data exchange, 3D visualization, and communication are crucial processes for reusing manufacturing intelligence across lifecycle stages. Research and industry have developed several CAD interoperability, and visualization formats to uphold these product development strategies. Most of them, however, have not yet provided sufficient integration capabilities required for current digital transformation needs, mainly due to their lack of versatility in the multi-domains of the product lifecycle and primary focus on individual product descriptions. This paper analyses the methods and tools used in virtual product development to leverage 3D CAD data in the entire life cycle. It presents a set of versatile concepts for mastering exchange, aware and unaware visualization and collaboration from single technical packages fit purposely for various domains and disciplines. It introduces a 3D master document utilizing PDF techniques, which fulfills requirements for electronic discovery and enables multi-domain collaboration and long-term data retention for the digital enterprise. 3D interoperability makes an important contribution to engineering collaboration. Several formats made to that end successively deal with challenges of their time. Some of these such as STEP are highly verbose formats, which gradually encapsulate all information necessary to define a product, its manufacture, and lifecycle support. Others are focusing best on lightweight visualization use cases and endure better with increasing size and complexity of data. Traditional formats like STEP and JT, though, are not capable of supporting the publishing activity in even broader fashion. New tendencies therefore are aiming at strengthening these individual formats through combination with complementary standards or by using document-based approaches. Unlike STEP or JT, 3D PDF can serve multiple purposes and leverages 3D data downstream throughout the product lifecycle to create, distribute and manage ubiquitous, highly consumable, role-specific rich renditions. Based on its container structure, 3D PDF is a fundamentally different approach from traditional experience established in product development – it is an exceptionally proficient contextual aggregation of multi-domain and multi-disciplinary product data. The manufacturing community should embrace it as an addition and great improvement to current engineering collaboration standards. All engineering components required for its descriptions are meanwhile published international standards. The productive use of 3D PDF for sure requires a change in the current mode of operation, be it simply because the traditional CAD model promptly demands new technical descriptions. More perspectives, which have not been primary focus of this approach need to be addressed in order to implement the 3D digital master concept of this paper in the industry. For the complete process to work properly, the actual workflows of today's business organizations must succeed a readiness check involving enhanced technical documentation capabilities of the authoring (CAx) applications based on 3D, PLM, and manufacturing workflows as well as new ways for engineering data communication with supply chain partners in the digital enterprise.

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