A framework for distributed collaborative engineering on grids

Abstract

Distributed collaborative design and manufacture enables manufacturing organizations in maintaining competitiveness in the fiercely competitive global industry. This requires the distributed system not only maintains data consistency across globally distributed location seamlessly, but also allows team members to access storage system and computing resources transparently and securely. In this paper, a framework for distributed collaborative engineering developed on the Grid platform is introduced. The system architecture is presented for this framework. This paper also describes data Grid, computational Grid and data compression to support collaboration efficiently.