An interactive and integrated framework for collaborative product development in cloud manufacturing using STEP...

Area of Science:

• Manufacturing Engineering
• Collaborative Systems
• Product Design

Background:

• Increasing competition necessitates enhanced product design processes in manufacturing.
• Customer-oriented design requires collaboration among diverse stakeholders.
• Cloud manufacturing paradigms demand global and distributed stakeholder interaction.

Purpose of the Study:

• To propose an interactive and integrated framework for cloud collaborative manufacturing.
• To enhance stakeholder collaboration and data integrity in product development.
• To address the need for efficient and conflict-free design processes.

Main Methods:

• Development of an interactive and integrated framework for cloud collaborative manufacturing.
• Utilization of the international STEP (Standard for the Exchange of Product model data) standard for data integrity.
• Implementation of a service-oriented approach with support for stakeholder semantics.

Main Results:

• The proposed framework enables collaborative and interactive work among stakeholders across disciplines.
• Ensures coherency of modifications, effectively avoiding design conflicts.
• Demonstrates the framework's capabilities through a comprehensive case study.

Conclusions:

• The framework facilitates seamless integration of stakeholders in design and production stages.
• Enhances product quality and speeds up the design process through continuous collaboration.
• Provides a viable architecture for implementing interactive cloud collaborative manufacturing systems.