Modeling of collaborative design based on Colored Petri nets

This paper is focus on the collaborative design, which is an important process to enterprise. In a manufacture system, a good method can be captured to model the process of collaborative design. But the present process modeling techniques are not sufficient to model the process, which is are IDEF, UML and ARIS. Colored Petri nets is proposed to model the whole process of the collaborative design. The process of collaborative design is a dynamic process and the colored Petri nets can describe the process. The allocation of task, the conflict resolution and other processes are all expressed in the model. The result suggests that the model is suit to express the process of design and it is good to know the whole process of collaborative design. By doing it, the system can be realized successfully.