Towards a Personalized Concurrent Engineering Internet Services Platform

1. Presentation at ECPPM 2000Lisbon, Portugal, Sept. 2000 Towards a Personalized Concurrent Engineering Internet Services Platform Raimar J. Scherer, Technische Universität Dresden Germany, EU

2. Facts • Each engineer participate in different projects the same time • A new virtual enterprise is set up for each project • In each virtual enterprise a different client server system may be applied • For each project an engineer needs more knowldwedge than he permanently do have available • Engineers have to co-ordinate their work across projects • Engineers have to know different client server systems • Engineers have to procure knowledge for each project • Engineers are nevertheless individuals

3. Engineer 1 Project A Engineer n Project-centered Virtual Enterprises - Collaborative work - Cooperative work - Simultaneous engineering - Responsibility - Legal aspects Concurrent Engineering

4. Co-ordination by Project Management & Workflow System Definition of worktasks and 1 their dependencies 3 Definition of priorities or time constraints 2 Definition of roles and actors For each worktask

5. Worklists are generated for each Actor • Electronic management of worklists with Work Tasks for all users • The worklist extends traditional messaging services (e.g. Email) by additionally maintaining the status and dependencies between items

6. client application layer adapter layer informationlogisticservices serverplug-inlayer projectdata structures third partydata struct document browser process wizard PtM Browser Internet adapter (WWW, Email) CommonRequestBroker Product mgmt. server ProductModels Process mgmt. server ProcessModels EXPRESS adapter (SPF, SDAI) SofiCAD SoFiSTiK Document mgmt. server Document M. SoFiPLUS Application adapter(IL toolkit, ORB, concad) Regu-lation M. Regulation broker PAULA GWM Conflict mgmt. server CuFIMS web browser E-mail TheClient– MultiServerSystem of ToCEE ToCEE Framework: common meta-model, common TCP/IP network

7. Object Oriented Modelling Framework META Model Layer KERNEL Model Layer IFC NEUTRAL Model Layer ASPECT Document Product Others Model Layer Application Model Layer d e v e l o p e d f r o m ATLAS STEP COMBI ESPRIT 7280 ISO 10303 ESPRIT 6609 ToCEE Modelling Framework

8. Document Product Others needs needs Information Logistics Request Broker meta level logical needs instance integration level Document Process Model Server Model Server Product Model Server physical distribution ToCEE multi client - multi server system Modelling Framework

9. Co-ordination • Workflow to support basic communication and co-ordination • not only on document level, but on product data and on schema level! • Conflict management => Virtual Round Table • Contract model => Responsibilty & legal decision making

10. Engineer 1 Project A Project A ENGINEER 1 Engineer n Project N Sufficent ? We have Project-centered NO ! We need additionally Human-centered

11. Concurrent Engineering Services Platform- The User’s Gateway to the CE World - CCS DAS MAS IOS RES USER TOS PPS ECS Exchangeable Tools Plug-in Technology Personalized Work Place Plug-in Technology Any Abritary Server (System)

12. Objectives of the CESP • Independence • Individuality • Capability • Sustainability • Lean

13. Independence The user should be independent of any particular client server system • The services of the CESP should allow the user • to attach to any kind of server • to map the data from the servers into his unified form • to properly organize his multi-project dependent tasks • to keep track of proper information flow

14. Individuality The user should be able to carry out his work according to his individual kind of working and his individual, but co-ordinated preference. • The services and tools of the CESP should have • individually configurable interfaces • an individually adaptable engineering ontology

15. Capability The engineering capabilty of the user should be valuable increased by the services. • The services of the CESP should provide the user • with engineering knowledge • with code of standards information • with market products information • with tool application information, • which may be for free or to be rented.

16. Sustainability The interfaces configured by user should be long term stable. • The services of the CESP should shield the user • from permanently changing CE systems • from permanently changing suppliers catalogs • the different servers and services offered from external • the different analysis tools

17. Lean The user should manage as less as possible data by himself on his personal workspace. • The services of the CESP should allow the user • to outsource data storage and management (EDMS, PtDMS) • to focus on logistics information • to focus on management information • to focus on knowledge management

18. Concurrent Engineering Services PlatformServices : CCS DAS MAS IOS RES USER TOS PPS ECS IOS Interoperability Services MAS Knowledge Based Model Access Service DAS Knowledg Based Design Assistance Service CCS Knowledge Based Code Checking Service RES Remote User Specialised Rental Eng. Services ECS Technology Support Tools for e-Commerce Services TOS Training and Online Human Support Services PPS Personal Planning and PDM Services

19. IST for CE Intelligent Services and ToolsforConcurrent Engineering Project Overview 10 Partners 42 Person years 3,6 million Euro 02/2000 – 04/2002 27 months TUD OPB CER FID CST AEC ULJ GEO API CIN

20. Project B Project A Project C Project Workflow Personal Workflow Cross Project Workflow Cross Project Coordination

21. Cross Project Activity Management • Open Research topics: • Integration of workflow systems • integration of project management systems • development of a multi layer priority system • forecasting based on priorities judged by different invididuals

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