Title :
Performance analysis of collaborative design network
Author :
Fu, Leijie ; Jiang, Pingyu ; Zhu, Qiqi
Author_Institution :
State Key Lab. for Manuf. Syst. Eng., Xian Jiaotong Univ., Xian, China
Abstract :
In a collaborative design process, design activities, people and design tools are connected each other for collaboratively finishing design tasks. A method based on complex network theory is proposed in this paper to analyze the performance of the process. Firstly, the collaborative design process is abstracted as a network named collaborative design network (CDN), and its elements of CDN, such as nodes, edges and weight of edges are defined. Then the topological and physical characteristics of the CDN are defined and analyzed for revealing its performances. Finally, a steam turbine rotor design process is studied as an example to illustrate the feasibility and availability of the proposed method.
Keywords :
CAD/CAM; network theory (graphs); product design; topology; CDN edge weight; CDN nodes; collaborative design network; collaborative design process; complex network theory; design activities; design tools; performance analysis; physical characteristics; steam turbine rotor design process; topological characteristics; Atmospheric measurements; Load modeling; Particle measurements; Robustness; Stability analysis; collaborative design; complex network theory; physical characteristics; topological characteristics;
Conference_Titel :
Computer Supported Cooperative Work in Design (CSCWD), 2012 IEEE 16th International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Wuhan
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4673-1211-0
DOI :
10.1109/CSCWD.2012.6221848
