Critical Capabilities for Successful Distributed Collaborative Product Development

2004 ◽  
Author(s):  
Victor B. Gerdes
Keyword(s):  
Product Development ◽  
Value Chain ◽  
Computer Aided Design ◽  
Product Information ◽  
Product Lifecycle Management ◽  
Manufacturing Companies ◽  
Collaborative Product Development ◽  
Digital Products ◽  
Development System ◽  
Aided Design

Discrete manufacturing companies practicing distributed product development encounter challenges creating digital products, collaborating cross functionally in an organization and throughout the value chain, and controlling and managing product information and product development processes throughout the product’s lifecycle. This paper investigates the critical capabilities of a product development system for distributed product lifecycle management (PLM). A comprehensive product development system consisting of PTC’s Windchill PDMLink (control), Windchill ProjectLink (collaborate), and Pro/ENGINEER Wildfire (create - mechanical computer-aided design - MCAD) is presented in this paper with use cases and examples as a software solution for enabling distributed collaborative product development.

scholarly journals Search …and find

2013 ◽  
Vol 135 (09) ◽  
pp. 46-49 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dick Bourke
Keyword(s):  
Product Development ◽  
Computer Aided Design ◽  
Product Information ◽  
Information Access ◽  
Software Tools ◽  
Product Lifecycle Management ◽  
Product Development Process ◽  
Multiple Sources ◽  
Manufacturing Process Planning ◽  
Aided Design

This article focuses on different software tools that give engineers a quick access to product information. Software tools help access data generated during the product development process. Known as a search-based application or as unified information access, these tools use elements of semantic technology—machine-based recognition of meanings and relationships in text—to find information stored throughout a company’s multiple sources of data, including computer-aided design files and product lifecycle management systems. These software tools perform three functions: search, discover, and analyze. Search applications reduce the risks of using incomplete information when making product development decisions. Another type of search technology to consider is geometric-based search that pinpoints relevant parts based on shape. A company’s software selection criteria must encompass the informational needs of all product development activities throughout the enterprise. These activities include design engineering, manufacturing process planning, and quality control.

scholarly journals The Open Assembly Model for the Exchange of Assembly and Tolerance Information: Overview and Example

2004 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. M. Baysal ◽  
U. Roy ◽  
R. Sudarsan ◽  
R. D. Sriram ◽  
K. W. Lyons
Keyword(s):  
Product Development ◽  
Information Exchange ◽  
Computer Aided Design ◽  
Product Information ◽  
Product Lifecycle Management ◽  
Product Development Process ◽  
Assembly Model ◽  
Model Data ◽  
Product Model ◽  
Seamless Integration

In early design phases an effective information exchange among CAD (Computer Aided Design) tools depends on a standardized representation for the product data in all PLM (Product Lifecycle Management) tools. The NIST Core Product Model (CPM) and its extension are proposed to provide the required base-level product model that is open, non-proprietary, generic, extensible, independent of any one product development process and capable of capturing the full engineering context commonly shared in product development [1,2]. The Open Assembly Model (OAM) Model extends CPM to provide a standard representation and exchange protocol for assembly. The assembly information model emphasizes the nature and information requirements for part features and assembly relationships. The model includes both assembly as a concept and assembly as a data structure. For the latter it uses the model data structures of ISO 10303, informally known as the Standard for the Exchange of Product model data (STEP)[3]. The objective of the paper is to show how the OAM can be used to realize seamless integration of product information, with an emphasis on assembly, throughout all phases of a product design. A gearbox design example is used to illustrate the process.

Engineering Portal for Collaborative Product Development

2003 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zhixin Yang ◽  
Zhejie Liu ◽  
Jinmin Zhao ◽  
Zhenqun Shen ◽  
Zhao Xie ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Product Development ◽  
Data Storage ◽  
System Integration ◽  
Product Information ◽  
Spindle Motor ◽  
Manufacturing Companies ◽  
Collaborative Product Development ◽  
Development Processes ◽  
Typical Component ◽  
Product Development Processes

The product development processes nowadays are featured with ever-increasing complexity of product configurations, diverse data resources, and multi-disciplinary, geographical dispersed engineering teams, and intensive use of various software tools for managing the data associated with the product and its life cycle. These characteristics result in the need of a collaborative product development (CPD) environment for today’s industries. This paper describes the methodology which enables the engineering collaboration within a compressed product development cycle, and presents our results with the development of a CPD environment. A four-tiered client/server collaboration architecture, which allows system integration, data sharing, and collaboration among team members in an internet platform, is described. By integrating the distributed application servers, such as product specification server, CAD/CAE server, project management, collaborative visualization workspace, and product data management module, using web technologies, an engineering CPD portal is proposed and implemented. This portal environment could bring entire engineering team together in one place in real-time, irrespective of geography, enterprise boundaries, or native systems, to share product information throughout the product development processes, which include product definition, design, engineering analysis, and manufacturing, etc. Manufacturing companies could therefore collaborate closely with their suppliers/collaborators global widely. A case study is carried out for collaborative development of a typical component used in data storage industry, the spindle motor, to illustrate the proposed approach and to validate the developed systems.

Business Process Digitalization and New Product Development

2011 ◽  
pp. 49-64 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jun Li ◽  
Michael Merenda ◽  
A.R. Venkatachalam
Keyword(s):  
Product Development ◽  
New Product Development ◽  
Business Process ◽  
Value Chain ◽  
Computer Aided Design ◽  
New Product ◽  
Firm Innovation ◽  
Global Competitiveness ◽  
Aided Design ◽  
The Relationship

Previous research has largely ignored how business process digitalization across the value chain enhances firm innovation. This chapter examines the relationship between the extensiveness of business process digitalization (BPD) and new product development (NPD) in a sample of 85 small U.S. manufacturers. Scores of extensiveness were derived from the number of adopted e-business practices regarding inter and intra-firm activities such as: customer and supplier services (computer-aided design and manufacturing), employee services (education/training), and industry scanning (technology sourcing). The authors found that (1) NPD is positively related to the extensive use of BPD, and (2) the relationship between NPD and the extensiveness of BPD is stronger in more mature firms than that in younger firms. The authors conclude that small and medium-sized enterprise (SME) production innovation strategies are positively associated with the strategic use of BPD and span spatial, temporal, organizational, and industry boundaries thus aiding SME global competitiveness.

scholarly journals Engineering Meets Manufacturing

2007 ◽  
Vol 129 (12) ◽  
pp. 20-23
Author(s):  
Jean Thilmany
Keyword(s):  
Computer Aided Design ◽  
Product Lifecycle Management ◽  
Direct Access ◽  
Manufacturing Companies ◽  
Government Regulations ◽  
Easy Integration ◽  
Aided Design ◽  
Lifecycle Management ◽  
Manufacturing Problems ◽  
Factory Floor

This article discusses the future of software that links engineering and manufacturing. Companies are seeking a natural link between engineering and manufacturing, even if some aspects of it may be restricted. According to experts, giving manufacturers direct access to that design information would help them isolate potential manufacturing problems earlier in the cycle, cut product development time by stepping up design-manufacturing communication, and ensure that products will comply with government regulations. The article also describes that by allowing for quick communication and updates to an already existing computer-aided design model, product lifecycle management (PLM) can help speed these products to market. Engineers are putting efforts to bring PLM information to the factory floor to cut production time. Though the day of easy integration has yet to arrive, many companies are using PLM to reduce cycle time. Pushing PLM to the factory floor would help, according to an engineer. However, that's not an option for many until integration software comes to the fore.

Business Process Digitalization and New Product Development

2010 ◽  
pp. 290-305
Author(s):  
Jun Li ◽  
Michael Merenda
Keyword(s):  
Product Development ◽  
New Product Development ◽  
Business Process ◽  
Value Chain ◽  
Computer Aided Design ◽  
New Product ◽  
Firm Innovation ◽  
Global Competitiveness ◽  
Aided Design ◽  
The Relationship

Previous research has largely ignored how business process digitalization across the value chain enhances firm innovation. This chapter examines the relationship between the extensiveness of business process digitalization (BPD) and new product development (NPD) in a sample of 85 small U.S. manufacturers. Scores of extensiveness were derived from the number of adopted e-business practices regarding inter and intra-firm activities such as: customer and supplier services (computer-aided design and manufacturing), employee services (education/training), and industry scanning (technology sourcing). The authors found that (1) NPD is positively related to the extensive use of BPD, and (2) the relationship between NPD and the extensiveness of BPD is stronger in more mature firms than that in younger firms. The authors conclude that small and medium-sized enterprise (SME) production innovation strategies are positively associated with the strategic use of BPD and span spatial, temporal, organizational, and industry boundaries thus aiding SME global competitiveness.

A Framework for Augmented Reality Based Collaborative Product Development

1999 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. Agarwal ◽  
C. P. Huang ◽  
F. W. Liou ◽  
O. R. Mitchell
Keyword(s):  
Augmented Reality ◽  
Product Development ◽  
Computer Aided Design ◽  
Collaborative Product Development ◽  
New Paradigm ◽  
Domain Experts ◽  
Geographically Dispersed ◽  
Development Cycle ◽  
Augmented Reality Technology ◽  
Aided Design

Abstract The aim of this paper is develop a framework for a system for collaborative product development using Internet and augmented reality technology. The system allows fruitful interaction between experts at geographically dispersed locations through a flexible environment for sharing of information which could be in the form of live video, computer-aided design, audio, textual or conceptual. This system will provide a new paradigm for flexible interaction between the vendors and/or the domain experts at different stages of the product development cycle in order to reduce turn-around time. Also the system can be used in the classroom as a demonstration tool or in distance learning environment to introduce the concept of distributed collaborative engineering to students.

scholarly journals COMPLEX USAGE OF 4D INFORMATION MODELLING CONCEPT FOR BUILDING DESIGN, ESTIMATION, SHEDULING AND DETERMINATION OF EFFECTIVE VARIANT

2006 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 91-98 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vladimir Popov ◽  
Saulius Mikalauskas ◽  
Darius Migilinskas ◽  
Povilas Vainiūnas
Keyword(s):  
Computer Aided Design ◽  
Information Technologies ◽  
Investment Project ◽  
Building Design ◽  
Product Lifecycle Management ◽  
Information Modeling ◽  
Information Modelling ◽  
Computer Aided ◽  
Aided Design

With the growth of information technologies in the field of construction industry, the concept of CAD (Computer Aided Design), which denotes just design operations using a computer acquires a new meaning and changes the contents lightening design process based on product modelling and further numerical simulation construction process and facility managing. New definitions as Building Information Modelling (BIM) and Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) are more and more usable as the definition of a new way approaching the design and documentation managing of building projects. The presented computer aided design technology based on the concept of graphical ‐ information modeling of a building, is combined with resource demand calculations, comparison of alternatives and determination of duration of all the stages of investment project life. The software based on this combined 4D PLM model is to be created as a means to manage effectively the investment project, starting from planning, designing, economical calculations, construction and afterwards to manage the finished building and to utilize it.

A Machine Learning Framework for Decision Support in Design and Manufacturing

2021 ◽  
pp. 479-498
Author(s):  
Aditya Balu ◽  
Sambit Ghadai ◽  
Gavin Young ◽  
Soumik Sarkar ◽  
Adarsh Krishnamurthy
Keyword(s):  
Product Development ◽  
Computer Aided Design ◽  
Iterative Process ◽  
Development Process ◽  
Product Development Process ◽  
Design Environment ◽  
Learning Framework ◽  
Design And Manufacturing ◽  
Product Design Process ◽  
Aided Design

The widespread adoption of computer-aided design (CAD) and manufacturing (CAM) tools has resulted in the acceleration of the product development process, reducing the time taken to design a product [46]. However, the product development process, for the most part, is still decentralized with the design and manufacturing reviews being performed independently, leading to differences between as-designed and as-manufactured component. A successful product needs to meet its specifications, while also being manufacturable. In general, the design engineer ensures that the product is able to function according to the specified requirements, while the manufacturing engineer gives feedback to the design engineer about its manufacturability. This iterative process is often time consuming, leading to longer product development times and higher costs. Recent researches in integrating design and manufacturing [24, 28, 46] have tried to reduce these differences and making the product development process easier and accessible to designers, who may not be manufacturing experts. In addition, there have been different efforts to enable a collaborative product development process and reduce the number of design iterations [8, 10, 41]. However, with the increase in complexity of designs, integrating the manufacturability analysis within the design environment provides an ideal solution to improve the product design process.

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