Product Life-Cycle Management Tools and Collaborative Tools applied to an Automotive Case Study
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| Audience/Grade: | College Freshman-College Senior |
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Design General Engineering, Engineering Science Industrial Design Industrial Engineering International Engineering Education Mechanical Engineering |
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Reference - Educational Research Paper |
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Audio |
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CARLOS RIVERA, DAVID GUERRA-ZUBIAGA, Hugo Elizalde RICARDO RAMIREZ RUBEN MORALESMENENDEZ |
| Description: | Int. J. Engng Ed. Vol. 24, No. 2, 2008, pp. pp. 266-273. Special issue on Design and Engineering Education in a Flat World. Abstract: "Learning engineering nowadays requires acquiring the necessary skills to remain competitive in an increasingly flat world, as well as the ability to deal with practical problems using edge technology. Modern learning techniques attempt to compensate some of the shortcomings suffered by more traditional approaches, by including real-life industrial problems in the academic environment. The main contribution of this paper is to explore a Collaborative Learning Method to achieve the integration of learning techniques, Product Life-Cycle Management (PLM) and collaborative tools to tackle projects for the automotive industry. The method is implemented and validated via a case study on design engineering." |
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| Keywords: | automotive design automotive engineering Collaborative method; POL; manufacturing; PLM tools; collaborative tools |
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Design and Engineering Education in a Flat World |
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(c) Design a system, component, or process |
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Conclusions: "The completed automotive manufacturing cell fulfilled the company's specification. Solid parts were modelled and the manufacturing system was simulated to evaluate spaces and layout design. This resulted in a virtual prototype to assess automation features required initially by the client. The combination of PLM tools with collaborative technologies provided good results for the real industry case; standard PDM systems alone would not have served the team's communication purposes. The current globalized environment requires integration of different tools within the industry. There is a need for a collaborative tool that enables the manufacturing process to be worked and supervised by all team members (teachers, industrial project leader and students). The collaborative teaching method proposed in this work not only allowed the goals of a real project to be reached, but it also provided other real benefits. Communication between students, professors and engineers, all of them with different backgrounds, was considerably improved with the help of technological tools, resulting in more efficient teamwork. The assignment of different tasks and responsibilities to the students helped them to get involved in the project. The students also participated in the decision making process. This active participation helped to improve the learning process since the students were more motivated to learn. Students could observe the application of theoretical concepts to a problem from the industry. Also, they develop valuable skills involved with innovation, attitude, commitment, collaborative work and self-learning along the way." |
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Medium |
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Very low |
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| Publication Date: | March 2008 |
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Cross Platform |
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Not free |
| Download URL: | http://www.ijee.dit.ie/latestissues/Vol24-2/s9_ijee2041.pdf |
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IEEE LOM Record |
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International Journal of Engineering Education
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