Virtual Furniture Design Bureau: Distributed Design in Multi-Agent Environment Using Cloud Technologies
- DOI
- 10.2991/aebmr.k.200730.118How to use a DOI?
- Keywords
- custom-made industrial furniture production, virtual furniture design bureau, multi-agent environment, distributed design, distributed design management system, cabinet furniture CAD system, cloud technologies
- Abstract
One of the most important tasks of creating a digital furniture company is to ensure the conditions for the implementation of design and technological preparation of production (DTPP) using effective methods and automation tools. At present, custom-made industrial production of cabinet furniture has become quite widespread, focused on the needs of end users of furniture products and imposing stringent requirements for the timing and quality of DTPP. However, only a few domestic furniture companies have the necessary financial and human resources for the rapid development of high-quality projects. The features of the approach to solving the problems of the DTPP, which uses the main provisions of the concept of the virtual furniture design bureau (VFDB), are considered. This concept involves the organization of a unified system environment for performing the distributed design of complex products of cabinet furniture and manufacturing processes for their orders. The design activity of VFDB consists in the development of object structural attribute models (OSAM), which are a digital representation of products and basic technological processes of their manufacture. Organizationally, the VFDB is a virtual structure whose stationary core is a design center interacting with design studios, which, in turn, interact with many freelancers (individual designers, design engineers, technologists). To simulate a managed design environment, it is proposed to use a multi-agent approach, involving the interaction of various types of agents involved in project work. When automating the solution of control problems in a multi-agent environment, an information model of the distributed design process is used in the form of a series-parallel design pipeline. The important task for the functioning of the VFDB is to provide each participant in the design process with software tools that allow developing new product designs and coordinating joint design activities efficiently. The access to software design tools can be implemented using the capabilities of cloud technologies. The features of using time-based remote licensing of CAD software modules adapted for applying in cloud computing are considered.
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- © 2020, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.
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- This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).
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TY - CONF AU - A.V. Starikov AU - P.Yu. Bunakov AU - A.A. Starikova AU - A.K. Lopatin AU - D.A. Meshkov AU - A.A. Pletnev PY - 2020 DA - 2020/08/01 TI - Virtual Furniture Design Bureau: Distributed Design in Multi-Agent Environment Using Cloud Technologies BT - Proceedings of the Russian Conference on Digital Economy and Knowledge Management (RuDEcK 2020) PB - Atlantis Press SP - 644 EP - 651 SN - 2352-5428 UR - https://doi.org/10.2991/aebmr.k.200730.118 DO - 10.2991/aebmr.k.200730.118 ID - Starikov2020 ER -