Internet applications in product design and manufacturing

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Personal Author:

Huang, George Q

Publication Information:

Berlin : Springer-Verlag, 2003

ISBN:

9783540434658

Subject Term:

CAD/CAM systems

Internet (Computer network)

Manufactures -- Computer network resources

Added Author:

Mak, K. L.

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In recent years, the importance of Internet and World Wide Web (WWW) technologies in manufacturing industries has been rising very rapidly in a global context, the impact of which is deemed most profound ever since the Industrial Revolution. The waving interests in the electronic commerce and electronic business (e-commerce / e-business) have spread, from the heartland (product development) to the battlefield (shop floor), of manufacturing enterprises. The number of web applications is ever on the rise, and many practitioners are keen on trying these remote systems through web browsers to support their decisi- making activities. Indeed, product design and manufacture professionals will soon be able to benefit from such remote services and supports commercially available on the Internet. The practice and performance of product development and realization are expected to make immense progress. Web applications in product design and manufacture signals the beginning of a new era of the digital manufacturing enterprise. However, many loopholes are found in the development and application processes because of domain complexity and technology sophistication, thus generating new challenges to both the developers and practitioners. A simple example is the difference in the user interfaces between web applications and traditional applications. Indeed, abundant issues need to be resolved before the full launch of digital manufacturing can come into being.

1 Introduction	p. 1
1.1 Web Applications in Businesses	p. 2
1.2 Enterprise Portals	p. 5
1.3 Digital Enterprises	p. 6
1.4 Manufacturing Portals	p. 7
1.4.1 Web Applications of Manufacturing Portal	p. 8
1.4.2 Manufacturing Portal Server	p. 11
1.4.3 Manufacturing Portal Users	p. 11
1.4.4 Application Providers and Portal Operator	p. 12
1.5 Benefits of Digital Enterprises	p. 13
2 Recent Developments of Web Applications in Product Design and Manufacture	p. 15
2.1 Web Applications in Product Design and Manufacture	p. 16
2.1.1 Individual Web-Based Decision Support Systems	p. 17
2.1.2 Inter-Operable Web Applications	p. 19
2.1.3 Web Applications for Group/Team Work	p. 21
2.1.4 Enterprise "Portalets" of Web Applications	p. 21
2.2 Typical Scenarios of Collaborative Product Commerce	p. 23
2.2.1 Market Research and Concept Testing	p. 25
2.2.2 Collaborative Early Product Definition	p. 25
2.2.3 Collaborative Design Review and Engineering Change Management	p. 27
2.2.4 Supplier Chain Integration	p. 28
2.2.5 Intelligent Product Manuals - Technical Supports and Customer Services	p. 30
2.2.6 Collaborative Product Development Project Management	p. 31
2.3 Summary	p. 32
3 Challenging Issues	p. 35
3.1 Challenges Related to Operation of Web Applications	p. 36
3.1.1 When and Where Web Applications are Applied Most Effectively and Efficiently?	p. 36
3.1.2 How to Choose Appropriate Web Applications?	p. 37
3.1.3 Appropriate Business Models	p. 37
3.1.4 Decision Traceability	p. 38
3.1.5 Individual versus Common Working Memories	p. 39
3.1.6 Collaborative Workflow Management	p. 39
3.1.7 Synchronous versus Asynchronous	p. 40
3.2 Challenges Related to Development of Web Applications	p. 41
3.2.1 Difficulties in Web Application Development	p. 41
3.2.2 How to Share and Distribute Computation between the Server and the Client?	p. 41
3.2.3 Interactivity and Security	p. 42
3.2.4 How to Convert Existing Legacy Systems into Web-based Systemson the Internet?	p. 42
3.2.5 Information Overflow	p. 43
3.3 Challenges Related to Deployment of Web Applications	p. 43
3.3.1 Difficulties in Deploying Web Applications	p. 43
3.3.2 Approaches to Building Enterprise Portals	p. 44
3.3.3 Enterprise Portal Servers and Enterprise "Portalets"	p. 44
3.3.4 Types of Enterprise Portalets	p. 45
3.4 Special Requirements of CPC Web Applications	p. 46
3.5 Summary	p. 46
4 Development and Deployment of Web Applications	p. 49
4.1 Development Architecture	p. 50
4.2 Implementation Constructs	p. 52
4.2.1 HTML, VRML, and XML	p. 53
4.2.2 ActiveX Technology	p. 53
4.2.3 Java Technology	p. 54
4.2.4 Summary of Implementation	p. 55
4.3 Deployment of Web Applications	p. 56
4.3.1 Deployment of Application Clients	p. 57
4.3.2 Deployment of Application Servers Dependent on Web Servers	p. 58
4.3.3 Deployment of Application Servers Independent of Web Servers	p. 59
4.3.4 Summary of Deployment	p. 60
4.4 Connection of Remote Databases to Web Applications	p. 61
4.4.1 ODBC and JDBC	p. 62
4.4.2 Database Connections to Web Applications	p. 64
4.4.3 Summary of Database Connection	p. 64
4.5 Summary	p. 65
5 Synchronization of Web Applications	p. 67
5.1 Components of Synchronised Web Applications	p. 68
5.2 Research Issues in Synchronised Web Applications	p. 70
5.2.1 Communication	p. 70
5.2.2 Role Assignment	p. 71
5.2.3 Awareness of Presence	p. 71
5.2.4 History Management	p. 72
5.2.5 Participation	p. 72
5.2.6 Conflict Resolution	p. 73
5.3 Strategies for Conflict Resolution	p. 73
5.3.1 Synchronisation Using Shared Workspace	p. 74
5.3.2 Decision Fusion Explorer	p. 75
5.3.3 Locking Mechanism	p. 78
5.3.4 Vote Explorer	p. 79
5.4 Synchronisation Implementation	p. 80
5.4.1 Client Refreshing from Server-to-Client One-way Communication	p. 80
5.4.2 Client/Server Two-way Communication	p. 82
5.5 Summary	p. 84
6 Business Models of Digital Manufacturing Portals	p. 87
6.1 Business Players	p. 89
6.2 Nature of Digital Enterprises	p. 89
6.3 Functionality of Web Applications/Contents	p. 94
6.4 Value Creation	p. 94
6.5 Revenue Generation	p. 95
6.6 Access Control	p. 96
6.7 Towards a Comprehensive Framework	p. 96
6.8 Summary	p. 98
7 Search Engine of Web Applications in Product Introduction	p. 101
7.1 The Need for Special-Purpose Search Engine	p. 102
7.1.1 Dramatic Emergence of Web Applications	p. 102
7.1.2 General-Purpose Search Engines are Inadequate	p. 103
7.2 System Development: Objectives and Approaches	p. 104
7.2.1 Working Scenario	p. 104
7.2.2 Objectives of the Special-Purpose Search Engine	p. 105
7.2.3 Approaches to Building Search Engines	p. 105
7.3 Overview of wapip System	p. 106
7.3.1 System Components and Architecture	p. 106
7.3.2 System Data model	p. 107
7.3.3 System Implementation and Deployment	p. 108
7.4 System Operation	p. 109
7.4.1 User Registration and Login Controls	p. 109
7.4.2 Registration of Web Applications	p. 110
7.4.3 Solicitation of Web Applications	p. 111
7.4.4 Searching for Web Applications	p. 113
7.5 Summary	p. 115
8 Web-Based Design for Manufacture and Assembly	p. 117
8.1 Web-Based DFA Architecture	p. 118
8.2 Web-Based Design for Assembly	p. 120
8.2.1 Product Design	p. 120
8.2.2 Web-Based Functional Analysis	p. 120
8.2.3 Web-Based Handling Analysis	p. 125
8.2.4 Web-Based Fitting Analysis	p. 125
8.2.5 Collecting Results	p. 125
8.3 Implications for Future Developments	p. 127
8.3.1 Web-Based Architecture for Collaborative DFMA	p. 127
8.3.2 Web-Based Generic Framework for Developing DFX Techniques	p. 128
8.3.3 Web-Based Framework for Integrated Utilisation of Multiple DFX Tools	p. 130
8.3.4 Web-Based DFX-Oriented Collaborative Product Development	p. 131
8.4 Summary	p. 133
9 Failure Mode and Effect Analysis (FMEA) over the WWW	p. 135
9.1 Design Tools as Virtual Consultants on WWW	p. 136
9.2 System Architecture of Web-Based FMEA	p. 137
9.3 FMEA System Development	p. 139
9.3.1 Design of FMEA Worksheets	p. 140
9.3.2 System Implementation and Deployment	p. 141
9.4 System Operation and Evaluation	p. 143
9.4.1 System Operation	p. 143
9.4.2 System Evaluation	p. 144
9.5 Implementing and Deploying through Thin Clients	p. 145
9.6 Summary	p. 146
10 Web-Based Engineering Change Management	p. 147
10.1 Literature Review	p. 148
10.2 Architecture of the Web-Based ECM System	p. 151
10.2.1 Supports for the ECM Lifecycle	p. 152
10.2.2 Components of the Web-Based ECM System	p. 154
10.3 System Deployment and Implementation	p. 156
10.3.1 ECM Database Model	p. 156
10.3.2 System Deployment	p. 157
10.3.3 System Implementation	p. 157
10.4 Web-Based ECM Facilities	p. 158
10.4.1 Web-Based Log of Engineering Changes	p. 158
10.4.2 Web-Based Request of Engineering Changes	p. 160
10.4.3 Web-Based Evaluation of Engineering Changes	p. 161
10.4.4 Web-Based Notice of Engineering Changes	p. 162
10.4.5 Typical Procedure of Using the ECM Facilities	p. 163
10.5 Summary	p. 167
11 Web-Based Support for Early Supplier Involvement in New Product Development	p. 169
11.1 Early Supplier Involvement (ESI) in NPD	p. 170
11.1.1 Early Supplier Involvement	p. 170
11.1.2 New Challenges	p. 171
11.2 The WeBid Framework	p. 174
11.2.1 WeBid Overview	p. 174
11.2.2 WeBid Components	p. 175
11.2.3 Brokering Customer-Supplier Partnership	p. 176
11.3 The Supply Explorer	p. 177
11.4 The Bid Explorer	p. 178
11.4.1 The Bid Model	p. 178
11.4.2 Inviting and Submitting Bids	p. 181
11.5 The Partnership Explorer	p. 182
11.5.1 Individual Partnership Indices	p. 182
11.5.2 Uses of Confidence Indices	p. 183
11.6 The Share Explorer	p. 184
11.7 Implementation Perspectives	p. 185
11.7.1 Design Considerations	p. 186
11.7.2 Distribution Considerations	p. 186
11.7.3 Implementation Considerations	p. 187
11.7.4 Database Deployment and Connection	p. 187
11.8 Summary	p. 188
12 Web-Based Collaborative Product Definition	p. 189
12.1 Framework for Early Product Definition	p. 190
12.1.1 Methodology for Early Product Definition	p. 190
12.1.2 ProDefine System Architecture	p. 191
12.2 Concept Explorer	p. 194
12.2.1 Editing/Browsing Concepts	p. 195
12.2.2 Concept Representation and Implementation	p. 195
12.2.3 Collection of Concepts	p. 196
12.3 Requirement Explorer	p. 198
12.3.1 Requirement Representation	p. 199
12.3.2 Compiling Design Requirements	p. 200
12.4 Concept Generation Explorer	p. 201
12.4.1 Morphological Generation Chart	p. 201
12.4.2 Generating Conceivable Concepts	p. 203
12.4.3 Formulating Solutions	p. 204
12.5 Concept Evaluaton Explorer	p. 205
12.5.1 Establishing Evaluation Criteria	p. 206
12.5.2 Comparing Alternative Solutions with Morphological Evaluation Chart	p. 207
12.5.3 Evaluating Individual Design Features Based on QFD	p. 209
12.6 Summary	p. 211
12.6.1 Key Contributions	p. 211
12.6.2 Potential Applications	p. 211
12.6.3 Limitations and Future Research	p. 212
13 Web-Based Collaborative Product Design Review	p. 215
13.1 Literature Review	p. 216
13.2 Framework for Collaborative Product Design Review	p. 219
13.2.1 Design Considerations	p. 220
13.2.2 CyberReview Framework	p. 221
13.2.3 CyberReview Components	p. 222
13.3 Case Study	p. 223
13.3.1 Organize Design Review with Review Coordinator	p. 223
13.3.2 Upload/Download Documents with Design Explorer	p. 224
13.3.3 Submit Reviews with Comments Explorer	p. 225
13.3.4 Submit Reviews with Review Forms	p. 228
13.3.5 Participate in Review with Meeting Explorer	p. 229
13.3.6 Share 3D Product Features with VRML Whiteboard	p. 231
13.4 Implementation and Deployment Considerations	p. 233
13.4.1 EAI for Realizing Synchronized VRML Whiteboard	p. 233
13.4.2 Applet-Servlet Communication	p. 234
13.5 Summary	p. 235
14 Online Courseware Engine for Teaching by Examples and Learning by Doing	p. 237
14.1 WWW.TELD.NET: Online Courseware Engine	p. 238
14.1.1 TELD as a Teaching and Learning Method	p. 239
14.1.2 Courseware Web Host	p. 240
14.1.3 Courseware Search Engine	p. 241
14.1.4 Virtual Classroom and Study Room	p. 242
14.2 Development of TELD Courseware Engine	p. 242
14.2.1 Architecture of TELD Courseware Engine	p. 243
14.2.2 TELD Data Model	p. 244
14.2.3 Many Faces of Cases and Curricula	p. 245
14.3 Operation of TELD Courseware Engine	p. 245
14.3.1 Use TELD to Prepare and Host Course Materials	p. 246
14.3.2 Use TELD as Virtual Classroom to Deliver Curriculum Materials Electronically	p. 247
14.3.3 Use TELD as Virtual Study Room to Conduct Revisions / Assessments	p. 248
14.4 Summary	p. 249
List of References	p. 253
List of Websites	p. 265

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