CODES:

Collaborative Open Design System for Integration of Information Webs with Design and Manufacturing Tools

Project Team

P.F. Brown, S.K. Gupta, S. Konda, C.J. Paredis, D.P. Siewiorek, E. Subrahmanian, S.N. Talukdar

A Design Project

Various activities during the course of an engineering design project can be divided into two categories. The first set of activities are the actual design activities which involve carrying out various synthesis and analysis tasks. The second set of activities are support activities that involve project management, selecting tools and people, deciding organization, defining interfaces etc. In a complex design project, the time spent in carrying out support activities is a large fraction of the overall design time. As design projects get much more complex the time spent on carrying out the support activities increases rapidly.

State of The Art

The time it takes to build a Collaborative Design System is a large fraction of the overall project time

• time to locate right tools
• time to build interfaces
• time to organize tools and people into teams
• lack of comprehensive representations
• lack of recorded experience
• project management
• ....

Our Goal

An order of magnitude reduction in the time and effort to compose a collaborative design system

• domain: electro-mechanical assembly design
• scope: synthesis, analysis, simulation, and planning tasks

We would like to reduce the time spent on composing a design system by an order of magnitude. We have chosen electro-mechanical assembly design as our application domain. The scope of our project is a variety of design activities that are needed to support synthesis, analysis, simulation, and planning tasks.

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Our View of Collaboration

Description of Component Technologies

• Design Project/Process Management
• Composable Simulation
• Spatial Realization
• Intelligent Assembly Modeling and Simulation

Example of Collaborative Design System

Conclusions