Collaborative Design Concept

There is no authoritative definition of collaborative design. A general idea is that two or more design subjects (or experts) have a certain degree of information interaction and mutual collaboration mechanism to accomplish a design goal, this design goal is achieved with different design tasks.

Collaborative Design has the following features:

1. Multi-subjectivity means that two or more design experts participate in the design. These design experts are usually independent of each other and have their own domain knowledge, experience and certain problem solving capabilities.

2. Coordination. An institution that collaborates with design experts to achieve the joint design goals includes communication protocols, communication structures, conflict detection and arbitration mechanisms between design experts.

3. commonality. These goals are the same as the design context, that is, the design objectives to be achieved by multiple design experts are the same, and their design environment and context are the same.

4. flexibility. The number of organizations involved in design earning can be dynamically increased or reduced, and the collaborative design system is flexible and variable.

The collaborative design industry is a communication processing process. In this process, communication and coordination are the most important thing.

Coordination Design is regarded as a process of "knowledge sharing and integration.

Problems to be Solved in Coordination Design:

1. Coordinate individuals with their own knowledge structures

2. communication and interaction platforms necessary for collaboration between individuals

3. A unified arbitration coordination agency is required between individuals for decision-making and mediation conflicts.

Difficulties in Collaborative Design:

1. Define data interaction and sharing standards to ensure data openness, security, and real-time big data.

2. collaboration mechanisms and Business Process division to maximize parallelism and maintain the independence of individual synergy as much as possible

Collaborative Design:

1. asynchronous collaboration

Collaboration between individuals requires no real-time interaction and feedback. The coupling is not strong, and they have independent workspace.

2. synchronous collaboration

Synchronous collaboration design is closely related. Multiple collaborators are designed to share the workspace within the same time, requiring strong real-time feedback between collaborators.

2. Sequential collaboration

The synergy between individuals is a sequential relationship, and the latter must be completed after the former is complete. No potential for Optimization

Collaborative Design supported by computers

It is a human-oriented technology, and is different from the traditional technology-oriented computer application system. The center of the collaborative work is the collaborative work, and the collaborative design of computer technology is the key technology of parallel engineering.

Huawei Power summarized the three core technologies of collaborative software, which are called the trigger to lead the development of collaborative software. They are from the bottom up: Collaborative platform, workflow, and intelligent report.

The collaboration platform will become the backbone of enterprises' informatization. It will achieve data integration, process integration, information integration, and management integration between different systems and applications, it is flexible, elastic, and active, and can quickly respond to users' personalized needs and business development needs. The collaboration platform allows users to focus only on Business Process Optimization, without having to master the system design technology and configuring business management modules such as "budget management" on the operation interface, fully implement on-demand management.

Workflows are the abstraction, generalization, and description of business rules between workflows and their operation steps. All enterprise activities are composed of workflows, enterprises use workflow management to optimize the communication, collaboration, and management of teams and improve management performance. Therefore, enterprises use collaborative software workflows, the design level of the workflow represents the design level of the collaborative software.

Smart reports and reports maximize the value of workflows. After a job is processed in the collaborative software, it records a large amount of business data, which is like a hidden gold mine. If it can be fully developed and utilized, it will create great value for the enterprise.

Intelligent reports are actually working on Bi (Business Intelligence), which also represents the highest level of enterprise informatization, it can extract, sort, and analyze data from collaborative software workflows and other business systems, and generate various statistical reports and views, such as cost analysis, business analysis, and personnel analysis, provides precise data support for leader management and decision-making.