Abstract
Design office, as is known today, is a workplace where various experts gather and develop products. Traditionally, the trend in engineering product development has been to use desktop computers, virtual reality systems and other systems and devices placed in specific workplace locations. Clearly, these sorts of stationary support tools are desirable because they matchup the product development methodological frameworks that have prevailed over the past several decades. With the availability of a wide spectrum of improved mobile and wireless communication technologies coupled with increased network bandwidth and enhanced software for mobile data-communication networks, design researchers now have new opportunity of exploring and coming up with concrete recommendations on how these technologies should be utilized in product development. Therefore, the work reported in this paper aimed at investigating how to take advantage of these technologies and how the product developers can benefit from the capabilities provided by both portable and non-portable information and communication devices. The focus was specifically on the challenge of visualization of product data and models remotely. The main characteristic requirements for a remote product visualization environment have been formulated and used as the basis for creation of a generic framework. It has been shown that the proposed framework meets some of the key requirements.
Highlights
Visualization plays a vital role in product development
Stationary visual display units are predominantly used in many organizations involved in product development
These include standard flat screen visual display units such as CRT displays, liquid crystal displays and plasma displays widely used for visualization of product data and models generated by Computer Aided Design (CAD) systems
Summary
Apart from the above mentioned mainstream visualization technologies, there are several other emerging technologies. The work presented in this paper is part of a much wider research activity in which the aim is to conceptualize and implement a prototype of the prospective heterogeneous remote product visualization environment. It first analyses the prevailing remote visualization methods and technologies. It explains the notion of remote product data and models visualization and presents the key characteristic requirements and features of the envisioned visualization environment. Afterward, it introduces the framework for heterogeneous remote product data and models visualization. The results of the preliminary evaluation carried out to determine the validity of the requirements and the completeness of the proposed framework are presented and discussed
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