Modeling of Product Development Management in Virtual Enterprise Based on Unified Modeling Language

Manufacturing enterprises are seeking more advanced and more effective manufacture method and management mode in order to meet the requirements of market. Virtual enterprise as the important framework of agile manufacturing system has become the main evolvement goal of manufacturing enterprises. Virtual enterprise comprises several member enterprises, so virtual enterprise can eliminate the restriction of technology and resources in the independent enterprise. Manufacture efficiency and quality of product can be enhanced. Obviously, the product development management is a very important task of virtual enterprise. Authors put forward applying the Unified Modeling Language to establishing the visual model of product development management in virtual enterprise. Moreover, authors set forth the detailed modeling methods and processes of use case diagram, activity diagram, sequence diagram and collaboration diagram. Then the visual model can be integrated with the diagrams. According to the visual model, the product development management in virtual enterprise can be arranged rationally, and then the manufacture efficiency can be enhanced markedly.