Business-to-Business Virtual Collaboration of Aircraft Engine Combustor Design

Abstract

In today’s fast-changing economy, product designs are becoming increasingly complex while demands for faster design cycles never cease. Tighter collaboration among business partners and streamlined integration of engineering processes are becoming essential elements to succeeding in the competitive global environment. Modern computer-aided design/engineering solutions and revolutionary Internet technologies facilitate such real-time business-to-business (B2B) design collaboration. This paper discusses various emerging technologies that enable a true B2B virtual collaboration of an aircraft engine combustor design between GE Aircraft Engines, a jet engine manufacturer, and Parker Hannifin, a gas turbine fuel nozzle supplier. A case study involving the collaborative design and analysis of a fuel nozzle is also presented, which demonstrates the realistic implementation of these new technologies.

Sorcer: Computing and Metacomputing Intergrid

“…The SORCER iGrid has been successfully tested in multiple concurrent engineering and large-scale distributed applications Sampath, 2002;Kao, 2003;Lapinski, 2003;Khurana, 2005;Sobolewski, 2006;Berger, 2007;Turner, 2007;Goel, 2005;Goel, 2007;Kolonay, 2007;"SORCER Research", 2008). Due to the large-scale complexity of the evolving iGrid environment, it is still a work in progress and continues to be refined and extended by the SORCER Research Group at Texas Tech University ("SORCER Lab", n.d.) in collaboration with Air Force Research Lab, WPAFB.…”

“…The SORCER metacomputing environment adds an entirely new layer of abstraction to the practice of grid computing-exertion-oriented (EO) programming. The EO programming makes a positive difference in service-oriented programming primarily through a new metaprogramming abstraction as experienced in many grid-computing projects including systems deployed at GE Global Research Center, GE Aviation, Air Force Research Lab, and SORCER Lab Sampath, 2002;Kao, 2003;Lapinski, 2003;Khurana, 2005;Sobolewski, 2006;Berger, 2007;Turner, 2007;Goel, 2005;Goel, 2007;Kolonay, 2007;"SORCER Research", 2008).…”

Web Service with Parallel Processing Capabilities for the Retrieval of CAD Assembly Data

“…It is therefore important to provide a means for sharing CAD data efficiently among the systems used for collaborative product development in a distributed environment. Because current distributed object technologies are adequate for the sharing of product lifecycle data -including CAD data, manufacturing data, process planning data, and resource management data among participating companies on a network -they have been used in recent studies in the discipline of engineering [1,[4][5][6]. In a previous study [7] the authors also proposed an architecture of Web Services for CAD (WSC) for the retrieval of CAD data.…”

Hierarchical Role-Based Viewing for Multilevel Information Security in Collaborative CAD

“…SHASTRA is an environment for collaborative visualization and shared multimedia, demonstrated mostly for scientific and medical applications [Anupam and Bajaj, 1993]. The DOME [Pahng et al, 1998, Abrahamson et al, 2000 and FIPER [Rohl et al, 2000, Kao et al, 2003] systems target the integration of software products, and coordination between them over the network, for collaboration among individuals assigned disjoint duties in the product development cycle or across institutional boundaries. These systems support an accesscontrol framework, but do not offer alternatives to the problem of "all-or-nothing" feature suppression when a lack of full permissions exists.…”