A distributed Workflow Management System for Collaborative Product Development

Author

Jiang, Ping ; Ding, Yu-Kui ; Gao, Liang ; Shao, Xin-Yu ; Shen, Yin-Dong

Author_Institution

State Key Lab. of Digital Manuf. Equip. & Technol., Sch. of Mech. Sci. & Eng., China

fYear

2010

fDate

29-31 Oct. 2010

Firstpage

714

Lastpage

718

Abstract

Collaborative Product Development (CPD) has been widely accepted as an advanced paradigm to combine geographical distributed project teams to develop more competitive products. However, the process management for CPD is still a challenging research issue due to the distributed and dynamic nature of the problem currently. At the base of our previous study on process-view approach for inter-enterprises workflows, a P2P based and Web services-oriented distributed Workflow Management System (WMS) is built in this paper, which provides a scalable and flexible architecture for CPD process management. At last, the collaborative development of the motor, clutch and frame of an automobile is given as the case study, to validate the built distributed WMS.

Keywords

Web services; groupware; peer-to-peer computing; product development; team working; workflow management software; Web services oriented distributed workflow management system; collaborative product development; competitive product; flexible architecture; geographical distributed project; interenterprises workflow; process management; process view approach; Business; Computational modeling; Plastics; Collaborative product development; P2P; Web services; Workflow management system;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Industrial Engineering and Engineering Management (IE&EM), 2010 IEEE 17Th International Conference on

Conference_Location

Xiamen

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-6483-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICIEEM.2010.5646519

Filename

5646519