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W. Ivins+, J.C. Miles# and W.A. Gray*

+Department of Engineering, University of Wales College, Newport, Wales
#School of Engineering, *Department of Computer Science
Cardiff University, Cardiff, Wales, United Kingdom

Abstract

The development of new engineering products is often a complex, expensive, time-consuming process and methods such as Concurrent Engineering and design reuse have been developed to improve this situation. computer technology can be used to develop systems to support these methods. This paper builds on the research already carried out on an existing system to support Concurrent Engineering and process and discusses how the system can be extended to support design reuse. The following extensions are proposed: multiple current released versions; flexibility with ownership of artefacts; extending the database structure to support disciplines and products; extending the version derivation graph to incorporate version states; mechanisms for navigation; support for versioning constraint checks and the provision of versioning metadata.

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Front Page Browse CCP CSETS CTR IJRT Other Authors Search Purchase Guide FAQ Contact us	Civil-Comp Proceedings ISSN 1759-3433 CCP: 68 DEVELOPMENTS IN ENGINEERING COMPUTATIONAL TECHNOLOGY Edited by: B.H.V. Topping Paper I.2 Versioning Support for Design Reuse W. Ivins+, J.C. Miles# and W.A. Gray* +Department of Engineering, University of Wales College, Newport, Wales #School of Engineering, *Department of Computer Science Cardiff University, Cardiff, Wales, United Kingdom doi:10.4203/ccp.68.1.2 purchase the full-text of this paper Full Bibliographic Reference for this paper W. Ivins, J.C. Miles, W.A. Gray, "Versioning Support for Design Reuse", in B.H.V. Topping, (Editor), "Developments in Engineering Computational Technology", Civil-Comp Press, Edinburgh, UK, pp 9-15, 2000. doi:10.4203/ccp.68.1.2 Abstract The development of new engineering products is often a complex, expensive, time-consuming process and methods such as Concurrent Engineering and design reuse have been developed to improve this situation. computer technology can be used to develop systems to support these methods. This paper builds on the research already carried out on an existing system to support Concurrent Engineering and process and discusses how the system can be extended to support design reuse. The following extensions are proposed: multiple current released versions; flexibility with ownership of artefacts; extending the database structure to support disciplines and products; extending the version derivation graph to incorporate version states; mechanisms for navigation; support for versioning constraint checks and the provision of versioning metadata. purchase the full-text of this paper (price £20) go to the previous paper go to the next paper return to the table of contents return to the book description purchase this book (price £75 +P&P)
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