Supporting Environment Technology for Collaborative Manufacturing of Complex Product

Abstract

The system architecture, system integration technology and its key technology features for supporting platform are presented briefly. Furthermore, a virtual prototype engineering supporting platform for multidisciplinary complex product and its key components, which are self-developed and primarily applied recently, are presented in detail. The features of above supporting environment technologies are shown as follows: (1) Based on the project management centered on project schedule optimization and management under multi-constrain conditions, supporting the whole life-cycle management and development for the complex product virtual prototyping engineering. (2)HLA/XML/WEB middleware technology based integration schema for multidisciplinary Cax/DFx tools. (3) OMG/MDA complied, component technology oriented, and multidisciplinary complex product oriented virtual prototyping high level modeling language. (4) Component technology, meta-model technology, and state machine theory based multidisciplinary collaborative modeling and collaborative simulation. (5)HLA/VR/GIS based 2D/3D visualization. (6) PDM technology and XML specification based, services oriented model-base management system. (7) Simulation component model based rapid coupling and assembling for virtual prototype. 