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In today's fast paced economy product design is becoming increasingly complex and requires tighter integration of the engineering and business processes not only within the individual businesses, but also across enterprises. This high demand for real-time business-to-business collaboration across enterprises requires a robust and secure channel not only for data exchange but also for process interaction. This paper presents a robust and secure collaborative environment to enable engineers to perform complex design analysis such as CAD, CAE, PDM, optimization, cost modeling, etc. across the network and Business firewalls. However, maintaining the secure communication protocol and close monitoring of the distributed computing process across network can present itself as a significant challenge. A multi-level security approach is developed to prevent any potential security and/or communication failure. This paper presents a typical engineering design scenario between General Electric (GE) and one of its vendors. In particular it will demonstrate how this environment can facilitate the communication of both data and applications across enterprise boundaries to tightly integrate a vendor into the GE's Design for Six Sigma process. |
