Distributed Collaborative Engineering

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Distributed Collaborative Engineering

• J. Miró

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Outline

• Scope of this domain
• Objectives of RD in this domain
• Relevant technologies required
• Major RD activities envisaged

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Scope

• Covers the technologies that support the
  effective cooperation of distributed teams in
  carrying out the technical tasks (e.g. design and
  verification) within a project. It covers the
  following areas
• Remote access to data, applications and
  facilities
• Shared applications, tele-(video)-conferencing
• Distributed interactive simulation

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Objectives

• Since most of the basic technology exists,
  the RD strategy here is to facilitate access to
  this technology by means of
• Enhancing existing applications to cope with a
  distributed operation
• Developing middle-ware software
• Gathering experience in the use of this
  technology
• Developing guidelines for configuration of
  computer and communication equipment

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Relevant Technology

• Web technology
• Shared applications and tele-(video)-conferencing
  technology (e.g. Netmeeting)
• Distributed interactive simulation (e.g. DIS/HLA)
• Distributed databases / Distributed Product Data
  Management
• (High) speed networks and associated middleware
  (e.g. GRID)

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Areas of Activity

• Web-based Collaborative Engineering Environments
  containing project data, design baselines,
  models, access to analysis and simulation tools
  (e.g. e-simulation) etc..
• Distributed PDM/Databases
• Development/Customisation of middleware to
  support use of networking including high speed
  networks (GRID)
• European pilot network
• Pilot Applications
• Concurrent Design
• Multidisciplinary analysis
• Satellite pre-integration
• Teletesting
• Mission Operations
• Mission Data Exploitation