TU Dresden – Inst. of Mechanics and Informatics in Civil Engineering Prof. R. Scherer 1 Towards a Personalized Concurrent Engineering Internet Services Platform Raimar J. Scherer, Technische Universität Dresden Germany, EU Presentation at ECPPM 2000 Lisbon, Portugal, Sept. 2000

TU Dresden – Inst. of Mechanics and Informatics in Civil Engineering Prof. R. Scherer 2 Facts Each engineer participate in different projects the same time A new virtual enterprise is set up for each project In each virtual enterprise a different client server system may be applied For each project an engineer needs more knowldwedge than he permanently do have available  Engineers have to co-ordinate their work across projects  Engineers have to know different client server systems  Engineers have to procure knowledge for each project  Engineers are nevertheless individuals

TU Dresden – Inst. of Mechanics and Informatics in Civil Engineering Prof. R. Scherer 3 Project-centered Virtual Enterprises - Collaborative work - Cooperative work - Simultaneous engineering - Responsibility - Legal aspects Concurrent Engineering Project A Engineer 1 Engineer n

TU Dresden – Inst. of Mechanics and Informatics in Civil Engineering Prof. R. Scherer 1 Definition ofworktasks and their dependencies 2 Definition of roles and actors For each worktask Co-ordination by Project Management & Workflow System 3 Definition of priorities or time constraints

TU Dresden – Inst. of Mechanics and Informatics in Civil Engineering Prof. R. Scherer Worklists are generated for each Actor  Electronic management of worklists with Work Tasks for all users  The worklist extends traditional messaging services (e.g. ) by additionally maintaining the status and dependencies between items

TU Dresden – Inst. of Mechanics and Informatics in Civil Engineering Prof. R. Scherer 6 client application layer process wizard PtM Browser SofiCAD PAULA CuFIMS SoFiPLUS SoFiSTiK document browser GWM web browser TheClient– MultiServerSystem of ToCEE The Client – Multi Server System of ToCEE adapter layer Application adapter (IL toolkit, ORB, concad) Internet adapter (WWW, ) EXPRESS adapter (SPF, SDAI) information logistic services Common Request Broker project data structures Product Models Process Models Document M. third party data struct Regu- lation M. server plug-in layer Document mgmt. server Process mgmt. server Product mgmt. server Regulation broker Conflict mgmt. server ToCEE Framework: common meta-model, common TCP/IP network

TU Dresden – Inst. of Mechanics and Informatics in Civil Engineering Prof. R. Scherer 7 Object Oriented Modelling Framework META ModelLayer ToCEE Modelling Framework Application Model Layer ASPECT ModelLayer Document Product Others NEUTRAL ModelLayer KERNEL LayerModel IFC d e v e l o p e d f r o m ATLAS STEP COMBI ESPRIT 7280 ISO 10303ESPRIT 6609

TU Dresden – Inst. of Mechanics and Informatics in Civil Engineering Prof. R. Scherer Information Logistics Request Broker logical integration meta level instance level ToCEE multi client - multi server system physical distribution Product Model Server Process Model Server Document Model Server Modelling Framework Document Product Others needs needs needs

TU Dresden – Inst. of Mechanics and Informatics in Civil Engineering Prof. R. Scherer 9 Co-ordination Workflow to support basic communication and co- ordination  not only on document level, but on product data and on schema level! Conflict management => Virtual Round Table Contract model => Responsibilty & legal decision making

TU Dresden – Inst. of Mechanics and Informatics in Civil Engineering Prof. R. Scherer Sufficent ? We have Project-centered We need additionally Human-centered ENGINEER 1 Project A Project N Project A Engineer 1 Engineer n NO !

TU Dresden – Inst. of Mechanics and Informatics in Civil Engineering Prof. R. Scherer 11 DAS MAS IOS PPS CCS TOS RES ECS USER Concurrent Engineering Services Platform - The User’s Gateway to the CE World - ExchangeableTools Personalized Work Place Any Abritary Server (System) Plug-inTechnology Plug-inTechnology

TU Dresden – Inst. of Mechanics and Informatics in Civil Engineering Prof. R. Scherer 12 Objectives of the CESP Independence Individuality Capability Sustainability Lean

TU Dresden – Inst. of Mechanics and Informatics in Civil Engineering Prof. R. Scherer 13 Independence The user should be independent of any particular client server system The services of the CESP should allow the user  to attach to any kind of server  to map the data from the servers into his unified form  to properly organize his multi-project dependent tasks  to keep track of proper information flow

TU Dresden – Inst. of Mechanics and Informatics in Civil Engineering Prof. R. Scherer 14 Individuality The user should be able to carry out his work according to his individual kind of working and his individual, but co-ordinated preference. The services and tools of the CESP should have  individually configurable interfaces  an individually adaptable engineering ontology

TU Dresden – Inst. of Mechanics and Informatics in Civil Engineering Prof. R. Scherer 15 Capability The engineering capabilty of the user should be valuable increased by the services. The services of the CESP should provide the user  with engineering knowledge  with code of standards information  with market products information  with tool application information, which may be for free or to be rented.

TU Dresden – Inst. of Mechanics and Informatics in Civil Engineering Prof. R. Scherer 16 Sustainability The interfaces configured by user should be long term stable. The services of the CESP should shield the user  from permanently changing CE systems  from permanently changing suppliers catalogs  the different servers and services offered from external  the different analysis tools

TU Dresden – Inst. of Mechanics and Informatics in Civil Engineering Prof. R. Scherer 17 Lean The user should manage as less as possible data by himself on his personal workspace. The services of the CESP should allow the user  to outsource data storage and management (EDMS, PtDMS)  to focus on logistics information  to focus on management information  to focus on knowledge management

TU Dresden – Inst. of Mechanics and Informatics in Civil Engineering Prof. R. Scherer 18 Concurrent Engineering Services Platform Services : DAS MAS IOS PPS CCS TOS RES ECS USER IOSInteroperability Services MASKnowledge Based Model Access Service DASKnowledg Based Design Assistance Service CCSKnowledge Based Code Checking Service RESRemote User Specialised Rental Eng. Services ECSTechnology Support Tools for e-Commerce Services TOSTraining and Online Human Support Services PPSPersonal Planning and PDM Services

TU Dresden – Inst. of Mechanics and Informatics in Civil Engineering Prof. R. Scherer 19 TUD CIN OPB CER FID CST ULJ AEC GEO API Project Overview 10 Partners 42 Person years 3,6 million Euro 02/2000 – 04/ months Intelligent Services and Tools for Concurrent Engineering CEfor IST

TU Dresden – Inst. of Mechanics and Informatics in Civil Engineering Prof. R. Scherer 20 Project BProject A Project C Project Workflow Personal Workflow Cross Project Workflow Cross Project Coordination

TU Dresden – Inst. of Mechanics and Informatics in Civil Engineering Prof. R. Scherer 21 Cross Project Activity Management Open Research topics: Integration of workflow systems integration of project management systems development of a multi layer priority system forecasting based on priorities judged by different invididuals

TU Dresden – Inst. of Mechanics and Informatics in Civil Engineering Prof. R. Scherer 22 The End