The Web-based Manufacturing Resource Sharing Technologies and Application Services in Collaborative Product Development

Collaborative product development needs the wider support of Web manufacturing resources. A network-oriented resource service system and its key implementing technologies are presented in this paper. The manufacturing resource information is achieved through Web search engine and processed with semantic description. The system also realizes the Internet-based cooperative development environment and Web resource bases including Web parts library as well as distributed knowledge repositories. Finally, an application case is introduced, which promotes the networked cooperative design and collaborative manufacturing of tire mould. It preliminarily demonstrates the feasibility and effectiveness of this Internet-based resource service pattern for product development