1999 IEEE International Conference on Information Visualization (Cat. No. PR00210)
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Abstract

With the advent of global competition, greater numbers of organisations require collaborations with others. Concurrent engineering can provide a highly effective framework for this collaboration. A Distributed Object Oriented Concurrent Engineering System (DISCS) focuses on the communication of data between the members of a distributed project team. Conceptually the communication is the enabling factor; technologically the use of the WWW and object oriented technologies. A portfolio of collaboration support tools facilitates practical mechanisms for information sharing within the distributed enterprise, communication / conferencing for project teams, configuration / version control and workflow structures. DISCS effectively facilitates the virtual team, currently within an engineering context.
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