A scalable e-engineering technology for network-based concurrent engineering in electronics

Abstract

The Electronics Agile Manufacturing Research Institute (EAMRI) at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, with its industrial partners Lucent Technologies, Pitney Bowes, and CISCO Systems, is developing new methodologies for network-based design and agile manufacturing in the electronics industry, and conducting demonstration projects and assessments of the effectiveness of these new approaches. The emphasis of the EAMRI is the development, integration, and demonstration of e-engineering tools that facilitate distributed interactions among design, planning, manufacturing, and marketing functions. This paper presents recent research results on issues of scalable enterprise systems building upon the Virtual Design Environment (VDE) e-engineering technology.

Keywords:

• Multi-objective optimization
• Evolutionary algorithms
• Design chains
• electronics design

Acknowledgements

The EAMRI at Rensselaer was established under sponsorship of the US National Science Foundation (DMI-9320955). This work is also supported under DMI-0075524 as well as a recent second grant from the National Science Foundation (DMI-0121902) under its Scalable Enterprise Systems Initiative. This work is also partially supported by the EAMRI's collaborating companies including CISCO Systems, Lucent Technologies, Hughes Missile Systems company (now part of Raytheon), Texas Instruments Defense Systems (now part of Raytheon), Pitney Bowes, Vermont Circuits, Universal Instruments, MENTOR Graphics, and SmartLynx. Portions of this paper have appeared in several of the referenced papers.