Session: CIE-11-02 CAPPD:Computer-Aided Product and Process (CAPPD General)

Paper Number: 142597

142597 - Collaborative CAD in Support of Engineering Design Reviews 

The focus of this paper is on evaluating the needs of distributed design reviews and establishing requirements on tools to support designer reviews. Specifically, this research explores the US Department of Defense acquisition process. Within the DOD Acquisition there are several design reviews that require multiple stakeholders to access and provide engineering feedback regarding the system of interest. This literature review focuses on understanding the requirement around multi-user, shared content within Multi-User CAD (MUCAD) systems. The MU-CAD systems are framed in the context of collaborative design reviews and how quasi-asynchronous design reviews using MUCAD systems can enhance the understanding of product design.  This paper describes synchronous and asynchronous design reviews to make a case for a combined approach that utilizes MUCAD systems. In this research, the generated requirements for a successful collaborative MUCAD system are organized into seven categories: concurrency, heterogeneity, annotations, IP protection, security, version control, and viewing. The requirements identified in this paper serve as the foundation for two follow-up activities. First a series of use cases and data sources around vehicle design will be developed to enable tool and user studies. Second, a survey will be deployed with engineers from the US Army Ground Vehicle System Center (GVSC) to review these requirements. Finally, the user and tool studies will be conducted through the Clemson University Deep Orange Vehicle development project.

Presenting Author: Emily Petty Clemson University

Presenting Author Biography: Emily Petty is a Graduate Research Assistant in Mechanical Engineering at Clemson University. Her research is supported through the Virtual Prototyping of Ground Systems Center. Her research is focused on distributed design reviews in the vehicle development process.

Authors:

Emily Petty Clemson University
Nathan Edmonds Clemson University
Gregory Mocko Clemson Univ
Eric Patterson Clemson University