A cooperative agent modelling approach for process planning
Computers in Industry
A review of web-based product data management systems
Computers in Industry
A customizable shared information space to support concurrent design
Computers in Industry - Special issue: CSCW in design
Web-based support for collaborative product design review
Computers in Industry - Special issue: CSCW in design
Change management in concurrent engineering from a parameter perspective
Computers in Industry
A security model for distributed product data management system
Computers in Industry - Advanced web technologies for industrial applications
Market Segmentation, Advanced Demand Information, and Supply Chain Performance
Manufacturing & Service Operations Management
An internet-enabled integrated system for co-design and concurrent engineering
Computers in Industry
UML based specifications of PDM product structure and workflow
Computers in Industry - Special issue: Object-oriented modelling in design and production
Impact of information sharing on statistical quality control
IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, Part A: Systems and Humans
Integrated data management in complex product collaborative design
Computers in Industry
Collaborative feature-based design via operations with a fine-grain product database
Computers in Industry
Expert Systems with Applications: An International Journal
Robotics and Computer-Integrated Manufacturing
Security mechanisms for multi-user collaborative CAx
Proceedings of the 2nd annual conference on Research in information technology
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Product definition management (PDM) is a system that supports management of both engineering data and the product development process during the total product life cycle. The formation of a virtual enterprise is becoming a growing trend, and vendors of PDM systems have recently developed a new generation of PDM systems called collaborative product definition management (cPDM). This paper presents the concept of a virtual engineering community (VEC) to support concurrent product development within geographically distributed partners. A previous case study has shown that collaborative engineering design may be modelled from a parameter perspective [1]. Effective implementation of the parameter approach raises the following problems: how to support data sharing and secure that span the partner borders. This paper describes the system architecture, deployed security mechanisms, the prototype developed within cPDM, and the system demonstration using a real test. The implementation of this architecture extends a common commercial PDM system (Axalan(TM)) and utilizes standard software to create a security framework for the involved resources. Collaboration infrastructure, shared team spaces and shared resources are essential to enable virtual teams to work together. Various organizational and technical challenges are implied. The outlined architecture features a federated data approach. These issues are discussed and potential perspectives in the area of collaboration engineering are identified.