A collaborative design system for product data integration

Kleiner, Sven; Anderl, Reiner; Gräb, Robert

doi:10.1080/09544820310001606902

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“…Nonetheless, it can be said that the constraint-based design approach is one of the efficient ways of allowing multidisciplinary design participants to share their heterogeneous design knowledge and resolve their conflicts (e.g. Kleiner et al 2003) and collaborative design starts with an effort to find a common way of representing and manipulating the design problem.…”

Section: Limitations and Future Researchmentioning

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CO²DE: a decision support system for collaborative design

Kim

Xirouchakis

2010

Journal of Engineering Design

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This paper introduces an easy-to-use decision support system for COllabOrative DEsign named CO 2 DE. We examine the system particularly for the design concept filtering and selection stages considering the importance of conceptual design although the proposed framework can facilitate a design task, which is recurrent in many design phases. First, the paper briefly reviews what methods can be applicable to each step of the conceptual design process, and then describes the prerequisites for mathematical methodbased design concept filtering and selection processes. Secondly, detailed explanation about the process and main modules of the proposed system are provided with a small satellite design case study focusing on (1) what the inputs and outputs of each module are, (2) what information should be specified by design participants, and (3) what results can be obtained from the system. Thirdly, the paper discusses the advantages/limitations of the system and the main difficulties and barriers for the future implementation. Finally, the paper provides a useful guideline to those who want to develop a decision support system for collaborative design by which they can minimise the need for critical refinement and serious modifications of the design at the subsequent design phase.

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Section: Limitations and Future Researchmentioning

confidence: 99%

CO²DE: a decision support system for collaborative design

Kim

Xirouchakis

2010

Journal of Engineering Design

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“…In the industrial realm there have been similar attempts to co-ordinate information flows through the design process (Broadbent et al 1999, Davis et al 2001, Roller et al 2002, Kleiner et al 2003 to improve design team performance. Document-centric systems, such as the LIRÉ system (Davis et al 2001) developed at Carnegie Mellon University and based on an extensive information flow analysis in order to deduce design team workflow, attempt to utilise the undoubted potential of digital information storage for quick retrieval and utilisation but do not generally address the characteristics of team interaction, particularly during specialist tasks such as concept generation.…”

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Digital information support for concept design

Wodehouse

Ion

2010

CoDesign

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This paper outlines the issues in effective utilisation of digital resources in conceptual design. Access to appropriate information acts as stimuli and can lead to better substantiated concepts. This paper addresses the issues of presenting such information in a digital form for effective use, exploring digital libraries and groupware as relevant literature areas, and argues that improved integration of these two technologies is necessary to better support the concept generation task. The development of the LauLima learning environment and digital library is consequently outlined. Despite its attempts to integrate the designers' working space and digital resources, continuing issues in library utilisation and migration of information to design concepts are highlighted through a class study. In light of this, new models of interaction to increase information use are explored

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“…Links are then defined in the corresponding format while translators convert the information from the common model to the application-specific models and vice versa. Although this approach was very often undertaken, [1][2][3][4][5][6] no unified standard has yet evolved to describe product data in a common format which can be used across various disciplines and for the design of different product types.…”

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An Executable Unified Product Model Based on UML to Support Satellite Design

Größ

Reichwein

Rudolph

et al. 2009

AIAA SPACE 2009 Conference &Amp; Exposition

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Due to the multidisciplinary nature of satellite design and the mostly proprietary formats of engineering software tools, a multitude of heterogeneous computer models are employed during satellite design. A unified central product model can guarantee data consistency and manage the interdependencies between the different isolated models. This paper proposes to use the Unified Modeling Language (UML) as the cornerstone for a unified central product model. The approach has been applied to the design phase of the Perseus satellite which is part of the Stuttgart Small Satellite Program. This paper presents the UML lightweight extensions necessary to represent geometric features authored in CATIA and control system features authored in Matlab/Simulink in a common UML model. Next to the unified description of product data, the use of UML to represent design processes was investigated. An iterative design sequence consisting of several CATIA-and Matlab/Simulink-specific evaluations was formulated as an executable UML activity diagram. This study shows that the UML, which is already widespread for sofware design, has the potential to become the future unifying product modeling language which can close the gap between the traditional distinct mechanical, electronic and software-related disciplines.

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A collaborative design system for product data integration

Cited by 35 publications

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CO²DE: a decision support system for collaborative design

CO²DE: a decision support system for collaborative design

Digital information support for concept design

An Executable Unified Product Model Based on UML to Support Satellite Design

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