E-Negotiations, Supply Networks and Collaborative Product Development in Aerospace Manufacturing
DEXA '03 Proceedings of the 14th International Workshop on Database and Expert Systems Applications
Organizational Management in Workflow Applications – Issues and Perspectives
Information Technology and Management
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Mass customization, globalization and short product development cycles, are pushing the manufacturing industry towards mergers and collaboration world wide. The strategy of product development is therefore transforming and concept of virtual and extended enterprise is emerging. Primarily important are enabling tools and technology for collaborating at global level. There is increasing need for tools to capture, represent, and exchange product development knowledge. Product development process, for complex product like aero plane, is featured with distributed workflows, and complicated collaborative lifecycle management issues. Product lifecycle management commonly known as PLM solutions is reshaping the processes, to address the need for integration through out the product lifecycle. This paper investigates into workflow as an enabler to collaborative design process for an aeronautical product. First we present an overview of the collaborative product development with a framework sketch. Then we review the workflow and workflow management system, followed by its capabilities as an integration tool. We also present a sketch of generic concept design process for an aeronautical product.