A STUDY ON TELE-COLLABORATIVE PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT

2002 ◽  
Vol 01 (03) ◽  
pp. 441-455 ◽  
Author(s):  
JUNQI YAN ◽  
JUNYING SHEN ◽  
WEIMING SHEN
Keyword(s):  
Product Development ◽  
Process Management ◽  
Virtual Enterprise ◽  
Digital Camera ◽  
Global Market ◽  
Collaborative Product Development ◽  
File Transfer ◽  
Digital Network ◽  
Integrated Service Digital Network ◽  
Data Files

The tele-collaborative product development (TeleCo-PD) is an important technology for modern enterprises to win in the 21st century global market. It concerns how to utilize distributed product development resources to design and manufacture a new product. This paper presents a series of tools developed to construct a TeleCo-PD platform, which provides small and middle size enterprises with the ability to collaborate with each other. The proposed platform is based on an Integrated Service Digital Network (ISDN), with a Client/Server based process management system for defining and assigning tasks, a whiteboard for sharing engineering drawings, and a File Transfer Protocol server for transferring product data files. The platform has been deployed in a virtual enterprise in developing a new digital camera.

Empirical Studies on Inter-Organizational Collaborative Product Development

2006 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 179-187 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chih-Hsing Chu ◽  
Chia-Jung Chang ◽  
Han-Chung Cheng
Keyword(s):  
Product Development ◽  
Product Design ◽  
Value Chain ◽  
Empirical Studies ◽  
Global Market ◽  
Asia Pacific ◽  
Global Value Chain ◽  
Asia Pacific Region ◽  
Collaborative Product Development ◽  
Collaboration Process

Collaborative product development (CPD) has become an imperative for companies to strengthen their niche values and remain competitive in the global market. However, most scholars may lack knowledge of deploying CPD in current industrial settings, and their research efforts may thus fail to fulfill practical needs. This paper presents a series of empirical case studies on distributed product development in Asia-Pacific Region. Engineering collaborations among brand-owner, manufacturer, and supplier in six product design chains (desktop PC, IC substrate, LCD monitor, bicycle, mold design, and CPU cooler) are under investigation. A systematic approach is developed that categorizes CPD into three modes based on the number of engineering BOM items and the difficulty of modularization in product design. It provides a preliminary but structured template for CPD deployment by characterizing the implications and software features of each mode. The cases also reveal values which CPD creates for the downstream supplier of a global value chain and new IT technologies enabling the collaboration process. This work is one of the early studies that analyze collaborative product development from the perspective of a manufacturer. The findings complement and corroborate theoretical studies in related research.

Research on Product Development Process Management for Virtual Enterprise

2007 ◽  
Vol 10-12 ◽  
pp. 838-841
Author(s):  
Shan Liang Xue ◽  
Q.Y. Wei ◽  
Guang Ming Jiao ◽  
X.F. Li
Keyword(s):  
Product Development ◽  
Development Process ◽  
Process Management ◽  
Virtual Enterprise ◽  
Agile Manufacturing ◽  
Enterprise Modeling ◽  
Product Development Process ◽  
J2ee Platform ◽  
System A ◽  
Enterprise Javabeans

For a manufacturing enterprise to be competitive in constantly changing market environment, it is necessary to adopt a new model called agile manufacturing by organizing Virtual Enterprise. Aimed at developing a product development process management (PDPM) system for Virtual Enterprise, modeling of product development process is discussed and a union information model is proposed using Object Modeling Technique. Based on the J2EE platform, a framework of PDPM system is built up with a three-tiered architecture, which consists of several Enterprise JavaBeans components to ensure compatibility, distribution, and flexibility of the system. A PDPM system prototype is developed utilizing JAVA and has been validated in a simulated virtual enterprise environment.

Application of Data Maturity in Product Development Process Control

2011 ◽  
Vol 58-60 ◽  
pp. 657-661
Author(s):  
Qiu Zhong Zhou ◽  
Hao Yu Zha
Keyword(s):  
Quantitative Analysis ◽  
Product Development ◽  
Development Process ◽  
Process Management ◽  
Structure Design ◽  
Product Development Process ◽  
Maturity Level ◽  
Collaborative Product Development ◽  
Product Model

In the concurrent and collaborative product development process, the realization of quantitative analysis and overall control of the development process management is the key and the difficulties in the current study. Through describes the concept and role of data maturity, a new methods to quantitative analysis and overall control of collaborative product development process based on the idea of data maturity was proposed in this paper. Base on the explanation of the theory of data maturity to control the process, the differences and relationship between data maturity and milestone was analyzed. The division method of data maturity level was discussed, and the corresponding relationship between each data maturity level and completion degree of the digital product model was illustrated also. In addition, the overall form of the product collaborative development process based on data maturity was provided. Finally, the detailed process between product structure design, process design and tooling design driven by each data maturity were explored, which realized the quantitative analysis and overall control of the product development process.

Research on Workflow Modeling Methods for Collaborative Product Development

2008 ◽  
Vol 44-46 ◽  
pp. 247-252 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hao Bo Qiu ◽  
Y. Wang ◽  
Ping Jiang ◽  
Liang Gao
Keyword(s):  
Product Development ◽  
Process Management ◽  
Research Work ◽  
Workflow Modeling ◽  
Collaborative Product Development ◽  
Organizational Boundaries ◽  
Management Framework ◽  
Modeling Methods ◽  
Process View ◽  
Distributed Process

Collaborative Product Development (CPD) is an advanced paradigm for product development, which focuses on facilitating the business collaboration across organizational boundaries. The process of CPD is highly dynamic, and needs to be implemented jointly by participant organizations. Firstly, this paper analyzes some traditional workflow modeling methods, and reviews related research work on workflow modeling for CPD. Secondly, a process-view and Petri nets combined approach is highlighted. At last, a novel process management framework is proposed, which provides an effective and universal way to manage the dynamic and distributed process of CPD.

Spectraplot: A PC-based spectrum translation and display program

1988 ◽  
Vol 46 ◽  
pp. 918-919
Author(s):  
H. O. Colijn
Keyword(s):  
Low Cost ◽  
Transfer Program ◽  
File Transfer ◽  
Transfer Data ◽  
Error Checking ◽  
Data Files ◽  
The University

Many labs today wish to transfer data between their EDS systems and their existing PCs and minicomputers. Our lab has implemented SpectraPlot, a low- cost PC-based system to allow offline examination and plotting of spectra. We adopted this system in order to make more efficient use of our microscopes and EDS consoles, to provide hardcopy output for an older EDS system, and to allow students to access their data after leaving the university.As shown in Fig. 1, we have three EDS systems (one of which is located in another building) which can store data on 8 inch RT-11 floppy disks. We transfer data from these systems to a DEC MINC computer using “SneakerNet”, which consists of putting on a pair of sneakers and running down the hall. We then use the Hermit file transfer program to download the data files with error checking from the MINC to the PC.

scholarly journals APPROACH FOR THE DEVELOPMENT AND APPLICATION OF TARGET PROCESS MODULE SETS

2021 ◽  
Vol 1 ◽  
pp. 531-540
Author(s):  
Albert Albers ◽  
Miriam Wilmsen ◽  
Kilian Gericke
Keyword(s):  
Product Development ◽  
Development Process ◽  
Process Management ◽  
Process Quality ◽  
Project Planning ◽  
Project Managers ◽  
Product Development Process ◽  
Design Processes ◽  
Adaptive Processes

AbstractThe implementation of agile frameworks, such as SAFe, in large companies causes conflicts between the overall product development process with a rigid linkage to the calendar cycles and the continuous agile project planning. To resolve these conflicts, adaptive processes can be used to support the creation of realistic target-processes, i.e. project plans, while stabilizing process quality and simplifying process management. This enables the usage of standardisation methods and module sets for design processes.The objective of this contribution is to support project managers to create realistic target-processes through the usage of target-process module sets. These target-process module sets also aim to stabilize process quality and to simplify process management. This contribution provides an approach for the development and application of target-process module sets, in accordance to previously gathered requirements and evaluates the approach within a case study with project managers at AUDI AG (N=21) and an interview study with process authors (N=4) from three different companies.

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