Collaborative product design and manufacturing with inventive approaches

Abstract

Collaborative product design and manufacturing among distributed teams through the Internet is becoming more necessary as enterprises are distributing their activities throughout the world. Currently most of the design and manufacturing management systems of an enterprise do not consider all the involved product/process knowledge from the whole value chain. In addition, traditional failure detection approaches used in the design phase have important deficiencies, since it essentially is a brainstorming exercise initiated by probing the failures which might occur, and limited to absence of an intended or designed function. The approach presented in this paper deals with all these problems, addressing actual collaboration among distribution teams for product design and manufacturing, as well as problem detection with inventive approaches.