A Novel Workflow Model of Product Scheme Design Based on Design Collaborative Loop and MAS

Author

Jiang, Weijin ; Wang, Pu ; Peng, Lin

Author_Institution

Sch. of Comput., Hunan Univ. of Technol., Changsha

fYear

2006

fDate

3-5 May 2006

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

6

Abstract

Product scheme design is the most important design phase to improve product quality and promote design capability. Collaboration is a key approach for enterprises, which has different advantages to survive in an ever more volatile competitive market environment. Based on the analysis of the process of quality-oriented scheme design, the design collaborative loop is presented and the workflow model based on is built. With the introduction of the multi-agents technology, the implementation of the workflow to support the model is presented

Keywords

design for quality; multi-agent systems; product design; workflow management software; collaborative loop design; competitive market environment; multiagents technology; product quality; product scheme design; quality-oriented scheme design; workflow model; Collaborative work; Cost function; Economic forecasting; Information analysis; International collaboration; Predictive models; Process design; Product design; Reflection; Security; Design for Quality; Multi-agent; Scheme Design; Workflow Model;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Computer Supported Cooperative Work in Design, 2006. CSCWD '06. 10th International Conference on

Conference_Location

Nanjing

Print_ISBN

1-4244-0164-X

Electronic_ISBN

1-4244-0165-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CSCWD.2006.253092

Filename

4019128