(Georgia Institute of Technology, 1995-09)
Hale, Mark A.; Craig, James I.; Mistree, Farrokh; Schrage, Daniel P.
Integrated Product and Process Development (IPPD) embodies the simultaneous application of both system and quality engineering methods throughout iterative design processes. The use of IPPD results in the time-conscious, cost-saving development of engineering systems. A computing infrastructure called IMAGE is designed to implement IPPD from a decision-based perspective. IMAGE has four components: designer activities, available assets, agent collaboration, and a computing architecture. IMAGE captures a designer's activities through a timeline partitioning scheme, problem formulation and solution, and comprehensive information management. To support these activities, IMAGE incorporates design resources through the use of agents. Agents are a critical computational enabling technology that provide accountable mechanisms for resource collaboration in an integrated computing environment.
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 1995-05)
Hale, Mark A.; Schrage, Daniel P.; Mistree, Farrokh; Craig, James I.
Integrated Product and Process Development (IPPD) embodies the simultaneous application of both system and quality engineering methods throughout an iterative design process. The use of IPPD results in the time-conscious, cost-saving development of engineering systems. Georgia Tech has proposed the development of an Integrated Design Engineering Simulator that will merge Integrated Product and Process Development with interdisciplinary analysis techniques and state-of-the-art computational technologies. To implement IPPD, a Decision-Based Design perspective is encapsulated in an approach that focuses on the role of the human designer in product development. The approach has two parts and is outlined in this paper. First, an architecture, called DREAMS, is being developed that facilitates design from a decision-based perspective. Second, a supporting computing infrastructure, called IMAGE, is being designed. The current status of development is given and future directions are outlined.