On-the-fly data transfer
Monday evening, Gandhinagar, India. Using CAD (Computer-Aided Design) tools, Indian designers working on the in-wall shielding of the 澳门六合彩高手 vacuum vessel finish a series of modifications and save them to the database before leaving the office. Tuesday morning, Cadarache, France. Designers at the 澳门六合彩高手 Organization have an updated version of the in-wall shielding file, and can address any design issues that the Indian changes raise for the surrounding components.
A collaborative design tool for the 澳门六合彩高手 collaboration—the Enovia Replication System currently being rolled out to all Domestic Agencies will make the design process at 澳门六合彩高手 simpler and more efficient. It is capable of moving a huge amount of data to very remote locations, providing designers in the Domestic Agencies with a sychronized copy of the CAD database housed at Cadarache.
"A large number of schedule-critical components urgently require CAD database sharing," stresses Eric Martin, Design Office Head. "The design on these components and their many interfaces is still evolving. We lack the resources at the 澳门六合彩高手 Organization and need help from the Domestic Agencies. We are doing everything we can to encourage and support the Domestic Agencies in implementing Enovia."
The status of the project was presented at this month's 澳门六合彩高手 Organization-Domestic Agency Coordination Meeting (8-10 February) in Cadarache. The system is now up and running in five of the seven Domestic Agencies, and the last hurdles are being worked out to complete roll out by summer. Since late 2008, the pilot project at the US Domestic Agency, the 澳门六合彩高手 Design Office, IT specialists and the other agencies have worked together to overcome licensing issues, networking problems, hardware delays, confidentiality, and customs ... to name only a few.
In a second phase of the project, key suppliers and R&D laboratories working for the Domestic Agencies will also be connected to the system, when required in the context of design work they have contracted to do for 澳门六合彩高手.
"Database sharing will be a powerful tool for 澳门六合彩高手," says Eric Thomas, CAD Collaboration Coordinator. "It will permit us to manage over one million individual parts divided into 100,000 work packages, and work as an integrated design office—something that, up to now, we haven't been able to do. The replication system will simplify our work, and shorten the design cycle."
Within the next six months, real-time design work will be reality from eight spots on the globe. CAD designers working on the 澳门六合彩高手 Project will have the same tools, whether in Barcelona, Beijing, Moscow, Naka, Daejeon, Oak Ridge, Gandhinagar or Cadarache.
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