6. Industrywide Interoperability/ Electronic Process

We no longer draw, we create a digital model. We must collaborate on the model, not on drawings. This collaboration must include team members from outside organizations. This requires access controls on components of the model, and audit trails of additions and changes. It also requires Web-based collaboration

6.1. Requirements for multi-person, multi-discipline, multi-organization and multi-location team collaboration:
  6.1.1. Multiple people should be able to work on the same model with the software assisting in conflict resolution
  6.1.2. The team must be able to partition the model, then merge the sub-models
  6.1.2.1. By discipline
  6.1.2.2. By three-dimensional coordinate region
  6.1.3. These collaboration techniques must operate across the Web
6.2. Requirements for model management and control:
  6.2.1. Ability to lock in design intent
  6.2.2. Ability to enter non-plotted annotation to document reasons for decisions or changes
  6.2.3. Ability to prevent changes by unauthorized users identified by:
  6.2.3.1. Organization
  6.2.3.2. Discipline
  6.2.3.3. Project responsibility
  6.2.4. Automated change notification:
  6.2.4.1. Graphically highlight changes
  6.2.4.2. Maintain audit trail of when and by whom the changes were made
6.3. Requirement to maintain multiple, parallel, fully intelligent schemes:
  6.3.1. To archive progress checkpoints
  6.3.2. To study multiple alternatives
6.4. Requirements for interoperability:
  6.4.1. Ability to integrate models from multiple systems and sources to analyze interfaces and interferences
  6.4.2. Ability to pull details and intelligent product templates from vendor Web sites

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