Distributed Product Design and Manufacturing Based on KBE

Collaborative design and manufacturing through the Internet is becoming more necessary as enterprises are distributing their activities throughout the world. The approach presented in this paper deals with techniques that can support multi distributed clients and provide a dynamic database service, making possible a dynamic distributed design and manufacturing process, focusing on the product and process knowledge management from the whole value chain. The core application of the system presented in this paper manages the distributed design and manufacturing process through the internet among different teams.