Collaborative product development
Collaborative product development (collaborative product design) (CPD) is a business strategy, work process and collection of software applications that facilitates different organizations to work together on the development of a product. It is also known as collaborative product definition management (cPDM).[citation needed]
Introduction[edit]
Collaborative Product Development helps individual users and companies manage, share and view your
Exactly what technology comes under this title does vary depending on whom one asks; however, it usually consists of the Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) areas of: Product Data Management (PDM); Product visualization; team collaboration and conferencing tools; and supplier sourcing software. It is generally accepted as not including
Technologies and methods used[edit]
Clearly general collaborative software such as email and chat (instant messaging) is used within the CPD process. One important technology is application and desktop sharing, allowing one person to view what another person is doing on a remote machine. For
Specific to product data[edit]
With product data an important addition is the handling of high volumes of geometry and metadata. Exactly what techniques and technology is required depends on the level of collaboration being carried out and the commonality (or lack thereof) of the partner sites’ systems.
Specific to PLM and CAx collaboration[edit]
Collaboration using PLM and CAx tools requires technology to support the needs of:
- People. Personnel of different disciplines and skill levels;
- Organizations: Organizations throughout an enterprise or extended enterprise with different rules, processes and objectives;
- Data: Data from different sources in different formats.
Appropriate technologies are required to support collaboration across these boundaries.
People
Effective PLM collaboration will typically require the participation of people who do not have high level
Improved visualization capabilities, especially those that provide a meaningful view of complex information such as the results of a fluid flow analysis will leverage the value of all participants in the collaboration process. Effective collaboration requires that a participant be freed from the burden of knowing the intent history typically imbedded within and constricting the use of parametric models.
Organizations
Community collaboration requires that companies, suppliers, and customers share information in a secure environment, ensure compliance with enterprise and regulatory rules and enforce the process management rules of the community as well as the individual organizations.
Data
The most basic collaboration data need is the ability to operate in a MultiCAD environment. That is, however, only the beginning. Models from multiple
Real-time collaborative product design[edit]
Product design is typically a highly iterative and interactive activity involving a group of designers who are geographically dispersed. A neutral modeling commands (NMC) based method is proposed to construct a real-time collaborative product design platform within heterogeneous
Different levels of collaboration[edit]
If the collaborating parties have the same PDM and
With different
Examples of CPD[edit]
See also[edit]
Bibliography[edit]
- ^ *Min Li, Shuming Gao and Charlie C. L. Wang (June 2007). "Real-Time Collaborative Design With Heterogeneous
CAD Systems Based on Neutral Modeling Commands". Journal of Computing and Information Science in Engineering. 7 (2): 113–125. doi:10.1115/1.2720880. Archived from the original on 2013-02-23. - ^ "
CAD -PDM Integration, Transparency and Cloud Pain Killer". beyondplm.com. January 2014.
- Bilgram, V.; Brem, A.; Voigt, K.-I.: User-Centric Innovations in New Product Development; Systematic Identification of Lead User Harnessing Interactive and Collaborative Online-Tools, in: International Journal of Innovation Management, Vol. 12 (2008), No. 3, pp. 419–458.