Internet/Intranet/Extranet-Based Systems in the CESICED Platform for Virtual Product Development Environment

摘要

Development teams involved in the product development are often geographically and temporally distributed. There is a high level of outsourcing in the actual product development efforts. In order to achieve a market objective that otherwise could be out of reach, enterprises, which do not have the complete knowledge for developing all the components needed for their products, need to outsource the development of specific parts; in this way a cooperation with other enterprises working in the same industrial sector starts. It is then possible to say that enterprises give rise to a special type of virtual enterprise (VE), in which each company maintains the greatest flexibility and business independence. This paper presents a vision of next generation engineering working environments and describes a core information technology which future systems can be built on. This paper gives an overview of the new Web Services technology based of the IBM Rational Software solutions, discusses the critical issues of the virtual product development, presents the roles of the virtual teams, and build a general architecture of a CESICED experimental platform for training, research and consulting in the new digital economy, located in the PREMINV center at the University Politehnica of Bucharest.