Research on cooperative product design system based on ECP protocol

Abstract

为满足异地产品协同设计的需求 ,开发了一个基于企业协同协议、采用并行工程思想的产品异地协同设计系统。介绍了系统的功能、体系结构与主要特色。系统开发的目的是为企业提供全面的异地产品协同设计的支持。 The development of Information Technologies and technology innovation has made enterprises focus on the cooperative product design in order to improve the production power. The global competition and collaboration increase the demand for enterprise cooperative design technologies and systems. In this paper, a cooperative product design system (DCPDS, Distributed Cooperative Produce Design System) based on ECP (Enterprise Cooperative Protocol) which adopts concurrent engineering theory developed by the authors is presented. The functions and system architecture and main characteristics of the system are discussed. The purpose of developing this protocol and system is to provide enough support for the product cooperative design within an enterprise or among the enterprises.