Investigation to Peer-to-Peer-based collaborative working platform for product development Online publication date: Thu, 17-Jul-2008
by Lirong Wang, Jiacai Wang, Ichiro Hagiwara
International Journal of Internet Manufacturing and Services (IJIMS), Vol. 1, No. 2, 2008
Abstract: The current globalising industry is highly desired for synchronous collaborative working environment to perform multisited and multiuser cooperation during complex product design among partners, to provide customisation-oriented service to fulfil market demands and to satisfy customer's requirement around the world. This paper introduces a preliminary research work about Peer-to-Peer (P2P)-based collaborative communication environment that attempts to support codesign 3D CAD model in synchronous Collaborative Product Design (CPD) in the way of What You See Is What I see (WYSIWIS). A prototype with communication means of document cosharing and editing, draft codrawing, instant message and VRML-based visualisation space is developed on the basis of JXTA development platform. Collaborative model modification can be performed by the cooperation between document coediting space and VRML visualisation space.
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