Research And Development Of Collaborative Product Design Toolset

With the development of the manufacturing, because of the need of supporting to the designer, the manufacturing engineer and the manager to cooperative work on the Product Lifecycle Management(PLM) System, the light-level and networking Computer Aided-Design(CAD) collaborative tools has grown up.This paper integrates the development of client collaborative design platform embed in the PLMS, studied and developed a MAS (Multi-Agent System) based and light-level, networking CAD collaborative tools. The main research works are as follow:1 Integrate UML, KQML and XML technology, a full communication messages which support Collaborative Design are created base on the practice.2 According to the improving on the JATLite communication platform, a B/S based structure and expandable Collaborative Design supporting platform are offered3 The integration of session manage, collaborative browse, collaborative annotate, remote mouse and electronic white-board are realized4 The collaborative design process is supported by using CAD collaborative design tools...