ENGINEERING NETWORKS: A CONCEPT FOR THE COEQUAL MODELING OF DATA AND PROCESSES IN PRODUCT ENGINEERING
DS 48: Proceedings DESIGN 2008, the 10th International Design Conference, Dubrovnik, Croatia
Year: 2008
Editor: Marjanovic D., Storga M., Pavkovic N., Bojcetic N.
Author: Mogo, Nem F.; Weidlich, R.; Eigner, M.
Section: Representation of design information
Page(s): 849 - 856
Abstract
Enterprises today have to deal with new arising challenges. Amongst other factors, the introduction of multidisciplinary products, the demand for more product reliability and increasing product liability and the globalisation result in direct collaboration between enterprises, suppliers and customers. The concept of Engineering Networks provides a means to associate the rising amount of information to the complex engineering processes they run through. It describes a meta-model, for the modelling of integrated and federated product data and engineering process models in enterprises. An extended view concept supports the presentation and management of the product data and the associated processes, within and throughout different companies.
Keywords: engineering object, engineering process, object orientation, model driven architecture