An internet-enabled collaborative design and distributed concurrent engineering system

In order to facilitate the product design and realization processes, an Internet-enabled prototype system has been developed to support collaborative and concurrent engineering design through seamlessly integrating three functional modules, i.e., collaborative design, Web-based visualization and manufacturing analysis, based on some Java and Web technologies. This prototype system can be used for a design team geographically distributed to organize a 3D collaborative and concurrent engineering design effectively, and the proposed distributed and integration architectures can enable the system to be generic, open and scalable.