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Product modeling for multidisciplinary collaborative design

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The paper analyzes characteristics of multidisciplinary collaborative design (MCD) of product and proposes a new MCD-oriented product information model (MCDPM) that integrates physical structure, design semantic and collaboration management data. Better understanding and coordination among the different disciplines can be achieved through the multi-level relations at the semantic level, structure level, and management level. An extended object-oriented method is introduced to represent the MCDPM. As a component and its attributes are all defined recursively in class form, the model can be continually extended and has good modularity, flexibility, and evolution ability. The class inheritance methods in network environment, the concept of discipline view model (DVM) and the method generating the DVM are given. The coordination and consistency maintenance among multiple DVMs is discussed.

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  1. School of Mechanical Engineering, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, 430074, Wuhan, People's Republic of China

    Chen Liang & Jin Guodong

  2. College of Mechanical Engineering and Automation, Fuzhou University, 523 Gongye Road, 350002, Fuzhou, Fujian, People's Republic of China

    Chen Liang

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Appendix

Appendix

1.1 A notation list of basic terminologies

MCD:

multidisciplinary collaborative design.

MCDPM:

MCD-oriented product information model.

CC:

component class.

AC:

attribute class.

CDC:

component discipline class.

DVM:

discipline view model.

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Liang, C., Guodong, J. Product modeling for multidisciplinary collaborative design. Int J Adv Manuf Technol 30, 589–600 (2006). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00170-005-0108-8

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