Synchronous and Asynchronous Collaborative Work in Concurrent Engineering

Biennier, Frédérique; Coquard, Pascale; Favrel, Joël

doi:10.1016/s1474-6670(17)46559-1

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“…Different approaches can be developed to ensure the global consistency of the project organisation (Allison, 1994) (Grunder et al, 1995). Our solution provides some graphical tools, taken from these approaches, in order to model collaborative work (Biennier et al, 1994). Synthetic views on tasks and their synchronisation is provided thanks to the LACATRE graphical system (Schwarz, 1993), adapted from the real time system field, whereas the SDL language (CCITT, 1985), taken from the telecommunication field, provides rigorous embedded descriptions for each process.…”

Section: Integration Of the Project Descriptionmentioning

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“…Consequently, the way information is required or produced can reflect the exact schedule and organisation of a project. Based on the import/export mechanism described previously in (Biennier et al, 1995b), the system proposed here reports the asynchronous collaboration. It consists of three modules:…”

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confidence: 99%

“…This module is based on the information sharing system (Biennier et al, 1995b). This system, derived from the task driven part of the model, is based on the followmg topics: 1.…”

Section: Information System Architecturementioning

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Supporting efficient simultaneous engineering activities involves convenient "assistant" processes. The main improvements rely on reusing abilities, collaborative work design and information sharing.To achieve these goals, the support system must include storing and descriptive features as well as on-line adaptation to each actor. Of course, this system must also be organised in a distributed way and include communication features.The architecture presented in this paper relies on a hypermedia based information system. This system includes, in a semi-structured way, all the information describing the products and the description of the project organisation thanks to the LACATRE and SDL formalisms. Secured access functions are provided to ensure information consistency and allow collaborative work.By adding an information status controlling the information cycle of life and an eavesdrop system on the information access functions, we approximate the way the project is effectively organised.Thanks to this last feature, actors are described not only according to a technical point of view but also according to an organisational point of view. In this way, more adapted assistants could be proposed to the different actors Linear

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Section: Integration Of the Project Descriptionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Dynamic Analysismentioning

confidence: 99%