Design of collaborative engineering data system (CEDS): an application case of process integration

This paper presents a collaborative engineering data system (CEDS) design for supporting semiconductor technology lifecycle management in three aspects: change impact analysis, knowledge perspective modeling, and service configuration. The design innovation lies in the generic engineering data object (GEDO), which is designed for dynamic object modeling to wrap, structuralize and integrate all disparate information along an engineering chain. A proposed CEDS lifecycle control mechanism then guarantees the operation efficiency and quality during the CEDS implementation and run-time phases. An application of CEDS to collaborative construction of process integration knowledge serves as a conveyer of ideas