CERC Technical Report Series

Technical Memoranda

CERC-TR-TM-92-014

INFORMATION SHARING SYSTEM

V. Jagannathan

Raghu Karinthi

Ravi S. Raman

Vasile R. Montan

James J. Petro

July 1992

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT: This effort has been sponsored by Defense Advance Research Projects Agency (DARPA), under contract No. MDA972-91-J-1022 for DARPA Initiative in Concurrent Engineering (DICE).

Concurrent Engineering Research Center

West Virginia Univeraisity

Drawer 2000, Morgantown WV 26505
Acknowledgment: This effort has been sponsored by Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), under contract No. MDA972-91-J-1022 for the DARPA Initiative in Concurrent Engineering.

Information Sharing System

V. Jagannathan, Raghu Karinthi, Ravi S. Raman, Vasile R. Montan, and James J. Petro.

Concurrent Engineering Research Center

West Virginia University

Morgantown WV.

1. Introduction

Product development is an inherently cooperative activity in which engineers from a number of disciplines along with marketing, production and other experts, work on different facets of the product under the supervision of a product manager. The need for developing products that support a team arises in the context of concurrent engineering. There are several elaborate definitions of concurrent engineering, currently in use. Briefly, the goal of concurrent engineering is to improve the cycle-time in the development of products, decrease the cost of production and maintenance, taking into view customer expectations and life-cycle issues.