Synchronous collaborative design system – functionality and architecture
Abstract
Today’s global manufacturing company must overcome communication, geographical and cultural barriers in order to increase the co-ordination between distributed engineering activities. This paper describes an approach, which has been undertaken within the cross-bordered company to improve the productivity of multinational product development teams. Several aspects of virtual collaboration, especially data and knowledge sharing are presented and discussed. An architecture of Global Collaborative Environment has been proposed. As an example of system implementation the development process is shortly described.
Fields of Study & Subjects
Collaboration in agile enterprises
Software Engineering Techniques and Practices
Product Development and Customization
Publication details
- Journal / source
- CRC Press eBooks
- Pages
- 65–70
- Publication date
- 11 February 2026
- Language
- EN
- Document type
- Book chapter