Intelligent interface for engineering design

The design of large and complex equipment involves a good number of design software, which require and produce heterogeneous data. Viewing and managing data from various type and format poses a great difficulty for engineering designers. In order to solve these difficulties, we propose an intelligent interface system for handling heterogeneous design data. The intelligent interface system can understand and integrate data from heterogeneous data files. Data of different type and format can be specified, presented and managed in a unified way. From our system implementation we can conclude that our approach can greatly improve production efficiency of engineering designers.