Management of Engineering Design Process in Collaborative Situation
Résumé
Product development cycles are tightened to the minimum and subjected to a growing competitive pressure, in parallel product and process complexities are increasing. This situation requires new organisational concepts in order to satisfy at evolutive market demand. The various design actors, provided with diverse expertise and culture, are therefore invited to collaborate more and more closely in order to perform an effective product design. Then, collaborative design process regroups actors which have to achieve a common objective that is developing a product via interactions, information and knowledge sharing, with a certain level of co-ordination of the various activities. This paper will show how organisation and co-ordination of projects are possible thanks to the use of design environments, adapted to each design context. We will focus particularly on the study of various collaborative forms and collaborative knowledge to manage design environments.