Six Ingredients of Collaborative Virtual Design Environments

摘要: Industrial operations are spreading around the whole globe. Not only marketing and production, but also design development of products influenced y globalization. New challenges tasksb emerging unceasingly, which require genuine global solutions for geographically distributed product design, engineering, realization. Communication collaboration have got into focus, calling new approaches to activities such as concept definition, virtual prototyping, review, production planning. It is becoming more or less obvious that it not possible fulfil requirements solely based on conventional CAD/E systems present Internet facilities. The current Internet-based show poor functionality performance compared standalone systems. infrastructure, tools, methods knowledge needed in form collaborative nvironments (CVDEs). For instance, American National Telee -immersion Initiative (NTII) will enable users at sites collaborate real time a shared, simulated environment if they were same physical room. CVDEsenable remote participants share resources, models, carry out engineering actions concurrently. CVDEs represent holonically-integrated systems, therefore unimportant collaborating partners areco-located remotely located. They access all kinds resources available system, can define concepts develop prototypes variants cooperation Siddique, Z. et al., 1997( ). Each CVDE tuned specific design/engineering tasks well features teams designers/engineers. Noteworthy progress has been reached this direction. problem any separated designers engineers work together forming teams, involve potential customers defining requested individually customized products, implement expertise brokering with suppliers. supported by, among other things, enabling echnologies blackboard videoconferencing, t -business systems,eengineering service hubs, bases, outsourcing/servicing management telemanufacturing Nevertheless, paradigm its infancy here aret still many open issues related architectures, functionality, methodology implementations. Therefore, intensive theoretical methodological research, technology tool practical implementations testing through applications needed. always depend application. there some functions common fundamental environments. That is, we cannot talk about complete implementation without establishing (i) office supporting (ii) synchronous communication interaction, (iii) three-dimensional imagining simulation, (v) interactive