Cloud Service-Based Collaborative Design Resource Management

Abstract

Collaborative design is one of the research topics in the field of advanced manufacturing industry whose banner is intelligent manufacturing. Participants in the collaborative design always have some difficulties in fulfilling complex product design due to the lack of design resources. It is a crucial issue that how to help participants in the collaborative design to produce design with those correlative distributed design resources to achieve collaborative design. This paper is devoted to a cloud service-based design resource management in collaborative design. In order to improve the efficiency of resource management for collaborative design of existing industrial enterprises, some existing collaborative design resource management models are analyzed in this paper and typical characteristics and architecture of collaborative design resource management based on cloud service are expounded combined with cloud service. A knowledge expression model of object-oriented collaborative design resource management is established and a kind of collaborative design resource management system framework based on cloud service is also proposed. A computer aided collaborative design system is then developed. Finally, a typical case of collaborative design resource management based on cloud service is presented which proves the validity of the proposed methodology.