CoDesigner™ Design Collaboration Management Tool
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Overview
Design of highly complex products (i.e. radar system, airplane
system or SOC chips) is a cross-discipline system engineering,
making network design collaboration become mainstream business
in design houses.
By applying workflow-engine-based project management skill,
CoDesigner™ enables mutual participation for product
development, managing teams and up-and-downstream foundries
on virtual enterprise collaboration platform. Therefore it
establishes highly efficient data share and information communication
management environment, fastening technical renovation. Based
on C/S and B/S mixed technical structure, CoDesigner™
creates a professional work view for project participants,
supporting remote parallel design management.
Value:
• Centralized management for dispersed design activities
by project organizing mode;
• Enabling transfer from project knowledge and experiences
to company's IP;
• Maximizing development efficiency and managing skills
through a communication platform.
Features
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Project-based Design Collaboration Management |
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With the help of project management techniques, by constructing
knowledge engine and flow engine, CoDesigner™ is able
to dynamically manage all activities in project life cycle via
visual managing tools. CoDesigner™ can also assist engineers
to learn successful experience fast and shorten design cycles
through saving project knowledge and information in project
module format.
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Uniform Plan and Configure Design Source |
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With CoDesigner™, managing personnel is able to create
project source model to deploy human resource and equipment,
making each project member know his own workload, progress and
useable equipments.
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Design "Panoramic View" |
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CoDesigner™ provides an information view of design collaborative
chain and managing status for managing personnel. Such view
includes progress gantt chart, resource distribution chart,
project monthly report as well as project milestone design data
and design documents. In this way, managing personnel is able
to balance between resource and progress in real time.
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Consistency Management of Design Progress |
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According to definition of work flow, CoDesigner™
automatically executes data and information exchange between
previous and latter tasks, maintaining the overall development
pace for the whole team and enabling progress consistency.
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Design Activities Driven by Workflow Engine |
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Workflow engine from CoDesigner™ creates
the acitivity chain in the project's full life cycle for design
collaboration. It also establishes logic relationship among
tasks, automatically acquire and record status date of project
phase and project nodes, enabling ordered task handover. Workflow
engine files design collaborations histories in project template
format, accumulating knowledge and experiences, helping to achieve
knowledge reuse.
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Fast Evaluation and Realization of Engineering Change |
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CoDesigner™ provides change management which
includes change request, change evaluation, change execution,
change control and change costs calculation. CoDesigner™
evaluates design change and controls change affection areas
via e-signoff, reducing engineering redundancy caused by design
iteration.
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E-Design Audit and Signoff |
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According to CoDesigner™'s collaborative
management request, project members' task will be handed over
to professionals or managing personnel to evaluate and have
e-signature. E-signoff will be performed upon finish of projects.
E-design audit and signoff help to form trust and responsible
relations among team members.
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Enhanced Project Documents and Report |
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CoDesigner™ is able to organize project
data and technical documents either according to product functions
structures, or product design process. It can provide managing
level, in visual, with project progress plan, project source
configuration, task nodes deployment, project status monthly
report, project cost calculation and etc.
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Efficient Real-Time Communication of Collaborative Information |
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Through such communication tool as built-in real-time
message system, BBS and email system, CoDesigner™ releases
project progress and status information in real time and perform
data exchange among project members.
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Remote Design Collaboration Model |
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CoDesigner™'s remote collaboration model
supports cross-region source configuration and progress collaboration.
Therefore, CoDesigner™ achieves parallel performance
of project activities in multiple R&D sites in way of "dispersed
mining, centralized managing", furthermore to keep project's
core value in the company's R&D management center.
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Environment |
Hardware |
| Network |
Supporting TCP/IP company Intranet bandwidth
10Mbps min.
100Mbps recommended |
| Database Server |
1G RAM minimum 40G hard disk space minimum |
| Version Server |
1G RAM minimum 200G hard disk space minimum |
| Client |
512M RAM minimum 10G hard disk space minimum |
| Software |
| Database |
Oracle 9i or higher |
| J2RE |
Version 1.4.2 or higher |
| Other Software |
LDAP service, fedora-ds recommended |
| Server |
Supporting RH Linux 7.3 or higher, Solaris
8 or higher |
| Client |
supporting Windows 2000 or higher, RH Linux
7.3 or higher
Solaris 8 or higher |
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