Research On Web-based Project Management System In Distributed Collaborative Design

In the field of product collaborative design, the enterprises distributed in different areas are often short of the scientific, normative, and standard project management. This greatly affects the process of product development and will ultimately bring economy loss that can't be redeemed to those enterprises. So how to enhance the whole level of project management in collaborative design has become the urgent affair. At present, the project management system based on Web has become both the hotspot of research and advanced field, which shows a favorable perspective.This paper introduces the development situation and trend of project management system in collaborative design at home and abroad. With the characteristics of the B/S architecture, an open and distributed frame of collaborative design system is brought forward, and the hiberarchy of the system is analyzed.With the in-depth analysis of the concept and problems of project management, this paper puts forward a rough architecture of the project management in collaborative design, and discusses the essential meaning of every module of the system, namely the module of project disassembly, project process modeling, task executive engine and project executive monitor.This paper talks about the supporting techniques that help to realize the project management system in collaborative design at length. The project management system is constructed by means of ActiveX controls, and one module represents one aspect of the project management, which carries out one concrete function of project management. The communication between different modules can be implemented with the ASP and ActiveX DLL techniques, while the data exchanging can be realized with ADO objects. With those techniques, this paper accomplishes the prototype system and briefly describes the run process of the project management system based on Web in collaborative design.