TracED: A Computational Environment for Capturing and Tracing Engineering Design Processes

GONNET, SILVIO; ROLDÁN, MARÍA LUCILA; LEONE, HORACIO; HENNING, GABRIELA

Cambridge

Conferencia; First International Conference on Modeling and Management of Engineering Design Processes, MMEP 2010; 2010

The Design Society

An operational-oriented environment to capturing and tracing engineering design processes is presented. The approach on which it is based provides the mechanisms to capture the several products generated during an engineering design process. Based on the extensible model proposed in Gonnet et al. (2007) and Roldán et al. (2010), TracED allows the definition of concepts pertaining to a particular domain and the operations suitable for them. Up to now, the TracED environment has been successfully tested in both, the chemical plant design and software engineering domains; however, future plans include testing it in other engineering fields. TracED is a standalone prototype environment, which was developed with the aim of proving the approach, and which it is not intended to replace traditional computer-aided design tools. On the contrary, TracED should be integrated with existing applications. In this way, TracED would perform the capture of all applied operations, by working in a background mode and without being noticed by those designers using the applications. Therefore, the next research steps are concerned with the integration of TracED with traditional computed-aided design tools.