Chapter 1: Models for Products and Systems Integration

Title: e-Engineering Framework to Support Collaborative Design of Automotive Suspension Systems

Author(s): Seong-Whan Park, Jai-Kyung Lee, Han-Min Lee

Address: Korea Institute of Machinery & Materials 104 Sinseongno, Yuseong-gu, Daejeon, 305-343 KOREA | Korea Institute of Machinery & Materials 104 Sinseongno, Yuseong-gu, Daejeon, 305-343 KOREA | Korea Institute of Machinery & Materials 104 Sinseongno, Yuseong-gu, Daejeon, 305-343 KOREA

Reference: International Conference on Product Lifecycle Management 2008 pp. 3 - 12

Abstract/Summary: This paper describes an e-Engineering framework to support collaborative design of automotive suspension systems developed at KIMM (Korea Institute of Machinery and Materials). The e-Engineering framework is proposed and developed on the base of the multi-layered software agents including engineering task agent which is generated from the domain knowledge of experts. The developed framework is aim to widely spread application to the small and medium enterprise by adopting open source technologies such as JADE (Java Agent Development Framework) and by using the independent characteristics related with applicant H/W and S/W system. This framework can provide an integrated design environment to support distributed personnel, design activities and engineering resources during product development process. For the validation of the system's applicability and efficiency, the several practical design processes for automotive suspension systems of RR/FR lower arms and RR cross member are applied and discussed.

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