KDI: Networked Engineering

该提案提出了通过互联网和电信技术连接全球制造业经济的愿景。 制造企业将以经济高效的方式设计新产品，并与客户直接合作。 全球信息基础设施将使公司集团能够组成虚拟公司，并配置定制网络以支持其集体活动。 在这一未来愿景中，支持工程和制造活动需要高度互动的技术来概念化，设计，测试，计划，制造和服务产品：虚拟和交互式原型（VIP）。 有三个多学科的推力来实现这些目标：（1）工程决策的协作协商;（2）主动设计和仿真软件系统;（3）设计知识库，用于复杂经验的存档和重用。 VIP是计算机能力和网络连接性增长的成果，将极大地重塑创作者和消费者之间的关系。 VIP提高了工程团队、行业组织和消费者社区的效率，这些团队跨越距离，随着时间的推移共同努力，快速、经济地生产出最理想的产品。

This proposal presents a vision of the global manufacturing economy connected through Internet and telecommunications technology. Manufacturing companies will cost-effectively design new productsin direct collaboration with customers. The global information infrastructure will enable groups of companies to organize themselves into virtual corporations and configure custom networks to support their collective activities. Supporting engineering and manufacturing activity in this future vision requires highlyinteractive technologies to conceptualize, design, test, plan, fabricate, and serve products: Virtual and Interactive Prototyping (VIP). There are three multi-disciplinary thrusts to achieve these goals: (1) Collaborative negotiation for engineering decision making; (2) Proactive design and simulation software systems; and (3) Design knowledge repositories, for archival and reuse of complex experience. VIP is a fruit of the growth in computer power and networking connectivity, and will dramatically reshape therelationships among creators and consumers. VIP increases the effectiveness of engineering teams, industry organizations and consumer communities that work together across distances and over time to rapidly and economically produce the most desirable products.