An Architecture for the CAD/CAE Information Integration System of Hydraulic Press

Abstract

Nowadays, CAD/CAE system has been widely used in manufacturing industries. Since every CAD/CAE system is fixed in the different platforms and has its own individual information model and data structure, the transfer of design information from one system to another often causes incompatible and/or incomplete data. The ability to vertically and horizontally share data becomes an increasing concern for manufactures. This paper presents a framework, which is oriented to concurrent engineering, to support the integration of the information flow between CAD and CAE systems. A prototype system based on this framework is developed. Common methods for information integration and two kinds of distributed structures (Client/Server and Browser/Server) are also discussed in this paper