Research on collaborative design in manufacturing grid

Today, it has become more difficult for individual designer to fulfill the complicated design work due to the complexity of modern products. Grid provides a supporting environment for collaborative design. Cooperating work is the key to ensure the success of products design. Developing within the grid-based environment that is suitable to the demand of manufacturing design on special area is a challenge to the traditional methods of software development. In this paper, it creates a framework based manufacturing grid that uses peer-to-peer technology. According to this framework, there is a cooperating design environment, in which designers can make designing of machine tools. It also discusses the schedule of cooperating.