Development of an e-Engineering Framework Based on Service-Oriented Architectures

This paper presents an ongoing project on the development of an e-Engineering framework proposed by KIMM (Korea Institute of Machinery and Materials). The framework is based on a number of advanced technologies, such as intelligent software agents, Web Services, and Service-Oriented Architecture. And it aims to provide an integrated design environment to support integrating personnel, design activities and engineering resources during product development process. Especially Service-Oriented Architecture technologies enable to utilize and integrate effectively various engineering resources on the heterogeneous geographically distributed computing environments.