The Language of Collaborative Manufacturing

协同制造的语言

• 批准号: EP/K014196/2
• 负责人: Ben Hicks
• 金额: $ 239.24万
• 依托单位: University of Bristol
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Research Grant
• 财政年份: 2013
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2013 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=EP%2FK014196%2F2
• 关键词: Language; Collaborative; Manufacturing

Today's machines and products are so advanced in terms of their materials, form, construction, control and drive systems that they require expertise and resource that extends beyond the reach of even the world's largest organisations. As a consequence, the design, development and manufacture of, for example, a modern aircraft is undertaken by a large globally distributed network of organisations. While defining this network poses a design problem by itself, it is the challenge of managing such large, highly distributed, high value projects that is of upmost concern to industry presently. This is not only because of the recent spate of high profile cost overruns, delivery setbacks and collapsed projects, but also because of aspects of leakage of intellectual property, exposure to risk, and difficulties capturing design records, lessons learned, decisions and rationale.Engineering projects of the sort previously described are critically dependent upon two key toolsets. These are electronic communication tools (e.g. email) and digital objects (reports, CAD models and simulations). These communication tools and digital objects are fundamentally related. Engineers around the globe communicate electronically in order to create and evolve digital objects which are the basis for the design, manufacture, assembly, delivery and maintenance of products and machines. It is this relationship and co-evolution of communication and digital objects that lies at the heart of every engineering project, embodying not only the engineering work itself but also control of intellectual property, decision making, rationale and problem solving. For these reasons, it is proposed that, through an understanding of the relationship and co-evolution of communication and digital objects, it is possible to improve the management, control and performance of engineering projects.The vision of this research will be realised through a suite of ICT tools that embody new methods and approaches for capturing and analysing the content and evolution of engineering communication and digital objects, and new methods and approaches for generating, representing, interacting with, and interpreting what are defined as signatures of in communications and digital objects. The term signature is used to represent a meaningful relationship between one or more dimensions of communication and/or digital objects at a point in time or over a period of time.The research programme firstly considers the two dimensions of communication and digital objects. The aim here is to characterise what are referred to as the "language of collaborative manufacturing" (content of communication) and "patterns of evolution of digital objects" (construction and changes to digital objects) and to explore means of classifying content and structure, and means of generating signatures.The programme then explores the relationship between the co-evolution of these two dimensions. Here the aim is to establish sets of signatures, relationships between signatures and patterns of signatures that embody meaning for improving aspects of collaborative engineering such as those previously stated. This phase then investigates means of representing and visualising the signatures/patterns.The third phase of the programme researches new methods and approaches for project stakeholders to interact and meaningfully interpret signature sets, relationships and patterns with the aim of providing continuous real-time feedback. Such capability will enable advance warning of issues, improved management, increased productivity and ultimately improved design and manufacture of the product.In addition to the three major phases, the programme has a research strand focussed on testing and validation of the new methods and approaches, and characterising best practice, as well as new ways of setting up and managing collaborative work which will be used as part of outreach and knowledge transfer activities.

今天的机器和产品在材料、形式、结构、控制和驱动系统方面都非常先进，它们需要的专业知识和资源甚至超出了世界上最大的组织的能力范围。因此，例如现代飞机的设计、开发和制造是由一个大型的全球分布的组织网络承担的。虽然定义这个网络本身就提出了一个设计问题，但管理如此大型、高度分布式、高价值的项目是目前行业最关心的挑战。这不仅是因为最近大量引人注目的成本超支、交付挫折和项目崩溃，还因为知识产权泄漏、风险暴露以及难以获取设计记录、经验教训、决策和理由等方面的原因。前面描述的那种工程项目严重依赖于两个关键工具集。这些是电子通信工具（例如电子邮件）和数字对象（报告，CAD模型和模拟）。这些通信工具和数字对象从根本上是相关的。地球仪的工程师通过电子方式进行通信，以创建和发展数字对象，这些对象是产品和机器的设计、制造、装配、交付和维护的基础。通信和数字对象的这种关系和共同发展是每个工程项目的核心，不仅体现了工程工作本身，还体现了对知识产权的控制、决策、理论和解决问题的能力。基于这些原因，建议通过理解通信和数字对象的关系和共同进化，有可能改善工程项目的管理、控制和性能。本研究的愿景将通过一套ICT工具来实现，这些工具体现了用于捕获和分析工程通信和数字对象的内容和进化的新方法和途径，以及用于生成、表示、交互和解释被定义为通信和数字对象中的签名的新方法和途径。签名一词用来表示在某一时刻或一段时间内通信和/或数字对象的一个或多个维度之间的有意义的关系。研究计划首先考虑通信和数字对象的两个维度。其目的是研究所谓的“协同制造的语言”（通信内容）和“数字对象的演变模式”（数字对象的构建和变化），探索内容和结构的分类方法，以及生成签名的方法，然后探索这两个维度的共同演变之间的关系。这里的目的是建立一套签名，签名之间的关系和模式的签名，体现意义，如先前所述的合作工程的改进方面。第三阶段研究新的方法和途径，使项目利益相关者能够互动并有意义地解释特征集、关系和模式，以提供持续的实时反馈。这种能力将使问题的预警，改善管理，提高生产力，并最终改善设计和制造的产品。除了三个主要阶段，该计划有一个研究链侧重于测试和验证的新方法和方法，并表征最佳做法，以及建立和管理协作工作的新方法，这些方法将作为外联和知识转让活动的一部分。

项目成果

An Exploratory Study into Automated Real-Time Categorisation of Engineering E-Mail

工程电子邮件自动实时分类的探索性研究

• DOI: 10.1109/smc.2013.818
• 发表时间: 2013
• 作者: Gopsill J

Supporting engineering design communication using a custom-built social media tool - PartBook

使用定制的社交媒体工具支持工程设计沟通 - PartBook

• DOI: 10.1016/j.aei.2015.04.008
• 发表时间: 2015
• 期刊: Advanced Engineering Informatics
• 影响因子: 8.8
• 作者: Gopsill J

The Evolution of Terminology within a Large Distributed Engineering Project

大型分布式工程项目中术语的演变

• 发表时间: 2015
• 作者: Gopsill J

Investigating the effect of scale and scheduling strategies on the productivity of 3D managed print services

• DOI: 10.1177/0954405417708217
• 发表时间: 2018-08
• 期刊: Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part B: Journal of Engineering Manufacture
• 作者: J. Gopsill;B. Hicks

Computer Aided Design as a Sensor for Monitoring Engineers and the Engineering Design Process

计算机辅助设计作为监控工程师和工程设计过程的传感器

• 发表时间: 2016
• 作者: Gopsill J