Development of a Web-enabled environment for collaborative design and manufacture

Author

Li, Jiansheng ; Su, Daizhong ; Henshall, J.L.

Author_Institution

Sch. of Comput. & Technol., Nottingham Trent Univ., UK

Volume

2

fYear

2004

Firstpage

540

Abstract

A Web-enabled environment for collaborative design and manufacture is presented which combines appropriate communications and inter connectivity tools to enable manufacturing companies to interactively communicate over the Internet in real time, regardless of their IT platforms. The key techniques involved to develop the environment include: remote execution of large size executable programs, data file exchange between different CAD systems, and data sharing in real time with distant users.

Keywords

CAD/CAM; Internet; design for manufacture; electronic data interchange; groupware; manufacturing industries; remote procedure calls; CAD systems; Internet communication; Web-enabled environment; collaborative design; collaborative manufacture; communication tool; data file exchange; data sharing; interconnectivity tool; manufacturing companies; remote program execution; Appropriate technology; Collaboration; Collaborative tools; Computer aided manufacturing; Design automation; Internet; Manufacturing processes; Object oriented modeling; Product design; Real time systems;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Computer Supported Cooperative Work in Design, 2004. Proceedings. The 8th International Conference on

Print_ISBN

0-7803-7941-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CACWD.2004.1349248

Filename

1349248