REVIEW OF COLLABORATIVE ENGINEERING ENVIRONMENTS: SOFTWARE, HARDWARE, PEOPLEWARE

DS 68-7: Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Engineering Design (ICED 11), Impacting Society through Engineering Design, Vol. 7: Human Behaviour in Design, Lyngby/Copenhagen, Denmark, 15.-19.08.2011

Year: 2011
Editor: Culley, S.J.; Hicks, B.J.; McAloone, T.C.; Howard, T.J. & Badke-Schaub, P.
Author: Osborn, Jonathan; Summers, Joshua; Mocko, Gregory
Series: ICED
Section: Human Behaviour in Design
Page(s): 204-213

Abstract

This paper compares collaborative engineering environments that are reported in the literature with respect to three specific aspects: software, hardware, and peopleware configurations. A taxonomy is developed to fully describe each of the different environments. It is shown that no environment incorporates all different aspects. Using this taxonomy, an intersecting set of features from these environments may be used to develop future environments for customized purposes.

Keywords: DESIGN ENVIRONMENTS; CONCURRENT ENGINEERING; COLLABORATIVE DESIGN

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