Integration of design method software for concurrent engineering using axiomatic design

摘要

Concurrent engineering can help manufacturing enterprises to achieve shorter time to market,reduced development costs, and high-quality products. In order to realize the concurrent engineering,a lot of integrations are required according to parallel development technique, such as the integrationof the people with different disciplines, the integration of the software of design methods and designdata, and so on. This paper discusses the integration of the software of existing design methods forconcurrent engineering by using axiomatic design. The results show that a very complicated softwaresystem for concurrent engineering becomes simple and consists of 26 modules corresponding to 26design methods and one main module which contains all the junctional properties at each level. Thetask of the programmer for the integration becomes clear and is mainly programming for the mainmodule.