Collaborative Design Facility (CDF-Infra).

With the evolution towards smart, interconnected products and production systems, the design of physical systems becomes more complex. Traditionally, the design process is rather sequential: engineers from different domains work on their own specific challenges and results are passed to the next group in the development process. This often leads to lengthy iterations. To solve this, companies are shifting to concurrent and multidisciplinary collaboration where engineers from different disciplines work in parallel on the same design. The organization and management of this concurrent process, without suitable HW and SW infrastructure support, requires time and resources which are drawn away from the core engineering tasks. The complexity increases further when the engineers are distributed across multiple locations and/or when different companies (OEMs, Tier1, …) are involved in the collaboration. The facility developed in this project will support collaborative model-based design.

Keywords:MODEL DRIVEN ENGINEERING, COMPUTING INFRASTRUCTURE, ENGINEERING

Disciplines:Other computer engineering, information technology and mathematical engineering not elsewhere classified, Systems design

Project type:Collaboration project