Abstract

Despite the ever-growing need for speed in conception, computer-aided design (CAD) has stayed confined to the PLM paradigm, which lets only a single user at a time access and modify a CAD document. A new type of CAD, called collaborative CAD, has emerged to overcome this conundrum. Tasks can be parallelized with much more ease when multiple users can access a document simultaneously. Two main currents exist in collaborative CAD. The first one is synchronous work, which involves multiple users working in the same document simultaneously. The second one is asynchronous work, which involves each user working in a copy of the document and then all users’ work being merged at the end. In this paper, the workflows of PLM-based CAD and collaborative CAD are compared with a concrete example, the capabilities and limitations of current collaborative CAD solutions are identified and analyzed, and future perspectives regarding this work are presented.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProduct Lifecycle Management. Leveraging Digital Twins, Circular Economy, and Knowledge Management for Sustainable Innovation - 20th IFIP WG 5.1 International Conference, PLM 2023, Revised Selected Papers
EditorsChristophe Danjou, Ramy Harik, Felix Nyffenegger, Louis Rivest, Abdelaziz Bouras
PublisherSpringer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH
Pages298-308
Number of pages11
ISBN (Print)9783031625770
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2024
Event20th IFIP WG 5.1 International Conference on Product Lifecycle Management, PLM 2023 - Montreal, Canada
Duration: 9 Jul 202312 Jul 2023

Publication series

NameIFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology
Volume701 IFIPAICT
ISSN (Print)1868-4238
ISSN (Electronic)1868-422X

Conference

Conference20th IFIP WG 5.1 International Conference on Product Lifecycle Management, PLM 2023
Country/TerritoryCanada
CityMontreal
Period9/07/2312/07/23

!!!Keywords

  • Asynchronous Computer Aided Design
  • Collaborative Computer Aided Design
  • Computer Aided Design
  • Synchronous Computer Aided Design

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