Facilitating Collaboration Management via Management-oriented Digital Mock-up

The design of key scientific facility is a comprehensive and complex activity with remarkable characteristics compared with the general product design and architectural engineering design. According to the requirement of collaborative management for the top managers and chief designers of the key scientific engineering, an information model of management-oriented digital mock-up (MDMU) is proposed, aiming at achieving sustainable and holistic information management and decision making support. We discussed the features and challenges of collaborative management in design of key scientific facility and some implementation technologies of the MDMU, e.g. information integration, sharing and visualization based on the experience and results gathered during the feasibility and design of a giant inertial confinement fusion (ICF) laser driver in this paper. Real-life issues related to the efficient collaboration and information management studied in the project are presented including visions for future studies which is supposed to cast light on some future researches in cooperative management in the design of key scientific engineering.