Implementation of Workflow Management System for Collaborative Process Planning

摘要

Workflow management system has generally been accepted as a paradigm for supporting processes in complex organizations. Since process planning is a huge and complex work, several process planners should execute planning together. Collaborative process planning is inevitable for saving in time and cost of process planning through concurrent and collaborative engineering. Workflow technology, as the important branch of computer supported cooperative work, has strong advantages in organization management and flow optimization. In this research, the structure and business flow of collaborative process planning is analyzed. The function of workflow management system for collaborative process planning is illustrated and the system is implemented to effectively control and manage the flow of process planning.