Chapter 3: Interoperability

Title: A conceptual vision of interoperability of CAD tools and software to track evolution of design process

Author(s): Ravi Kumar Gupta, Balan Gurumoorthy, Vincent Robin, Philippe Girard

Address: Centre for Product Design and Manufacturing, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore 560012, India | Centre for Product Design and Manufacturing, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore 560012, India | IMS, UMR CNRS 5218, University Bordeaux 1, 351, cours de la liberation, 33405 TALENCE cedex, France | IMS, UMR CNRS 5218, University Bordeaux 1, 351, cours de la liberation, 33405 TALENCE cedex, France

Reference: International Conference on Product Lifecycle Management 2009 pp. 119 - 129

Abstract/Summary: In many companies the product development process is formalized at a high level and project managers have to respect the general identified phases and milestones. They have autonomy to structure projects and tasks within this general framework. In such a context, design coordination implies scheduling/planning tasks and resources management. Coordination of the information flows within design teams implies to manage information about the product, the process and the organization of the system. Authors are interested here in concepts and tools allowing project manager to obtain this information easily. The paper presents a conceptual approach to permit interoperability of product models and decision support software to follow evolution of design process. Some current work in information representation followed by a discussion on how these could be used to develop the new tools to address above objective are presented.

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