Multi-domain multi-lingual collaborative design

Nowadays, enterprises such as the European Aeronautic Defense and Space Company (EADS) span the development of their products across multiple countries with different languages. At the same time, the development of the products involves experts from multiple fields of expertise. For example, thermal and electrical engineers need to collaborate for the design of the same aircraft in the aeronautics industry. Yet they sometimes speak different languages (French and German). The vocabulary in the aeronautic is very precise and requires a level of understanding best achieved by the experts in their native language. Hence, they need a system supporting their collaborative design activities bridging the gaps between the different fields of expertise, as well as languages. In this paper, we demonstrate such a system, which is validated by an implementation and its application on a use case coming from the aeronautic industry.