INTEGRATED WORM DESIGN BASED ON DISTRIBUTED HETEROGENEOUS SYSTEM

摘要

Worm gearing design normally includes the cooperative design among the experts from multiple disciplines such as geometrical design, stress analysis, material selection, manufacturing, vibration simulation, etc. These experts might be in different organisations, located in different geographical regions and utilise different applications, which might be written in different languages, ported in different platforms and linked in different networks. In order to construct a collaborative environment for integrated worm gearing design, heterogeneity of these resources has to be taken into consideration. This article presents a collaborative system for integrated worm gearing design based on CORBA distributed computing technology. All the design applications and commercial software can be integrated together and communicated with each other, regardless of languages and platforms. This model makes it easily to develop the complex distributed system using multiple programs and to construct the integrated collaborative design environment for implementing complex design tasks.