A Web services and process-view combined approach for process management of collaborative product development

  • Authors:

  • Ping Jiang;Xinyu Shao;Haobo Qiu;Liang Gao;Peigen Li

  • Affiliations:

  • The State Key Laboratory of Digital Manufacturing Equipment and Technology, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, 430074 Wuhan, PR China;The State Key Laboratory of Digital Manufacturing Equipment and Technology, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, 430074 Wuhan, PR China;The State Key Laboratory of Digital Manufacturing Equipment and Technology, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, 430074 Wuhan, PR China;The State Key Laboratory of Digital Manufacturing Equipment and Technology, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, 430074 Wuhan, PR China;The State Key Laboratory of Digital Manufacturing Equipment and Technology, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, 430074 Wuhan, PR China

  • Venue:
  • Computers in Industry
  • Year:
  • 2009

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Abstract

Collaborative Product Development (CPD) across enterprises has been recognized as an effective strategy to connect multi-enterprise wide project teams to develop more competitive products. Process management is vital to the successful implementation of CPD in a multi-enterprise environment. In this paper, a novel Web Services (WSs) and process-view combined approach has been developed to manage the dynamic and distributed process of CPD to enhance the workflow interoperability among heterogeneous Workflow Management Systems (WMSs) of enterprises. Meanwhile, a hybrid P2P based WMSs framework has been built to provide an open and scalable architecture to deploy inter-enterprises collaboration. A software prototype system has been implemented using the open JXTA platform, and the collaborative development of a motorcycle has been used as a test case to validate the proposed approach and the prototype system.