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Engineering services coordinating system and method therefor
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Inventors: Fanjoy, Logan M.;
Assignee: Internet Design Engineering Automation Center, Inc. (Scottsdale, AZ)
Primary Examiner: Alam; Hosain T.
Assistant Examiner: Kindred; Alford W.
Attorney, Agent or Firm: Gresham; Lowell W., Meschkow; Jordan M. Meschkow & Gresham, PLC
A system (100) for coordinating engineering services (102) is provided. The system (100) uses a hyperdatabase (108) to encompass a CAE application library (122) for each CAE application program (120) used to provide the engineering services (102). Within the hyperdatabase (108), a program database (140) is configured for each CAE application library (122) to be encompassed. Each program database (140) has a plurality of datasets (142), each associated with a single CAE application record (134) in the CAE application library (122) and instantiating a one of a plurality of components (136). A data input routine (112) loads each dataset (142) with an identifier (150) uniquely identifying that dataset (142), query data (152) comprising attributes (148) of the instantiated component (136), graphic data (154) in a standardized format, and instantiation data (156) being the original CAE application record (134). A data extraction routine (116) extracts CAE product libraries (128) from the hyperdatabase (108). CAE product libraries (128) instantiate all the components (136) required of a single product (126), and allows coordination between all CAE application programs (120) used to engineer that product (126). |
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DETAILED DESCRIPTION Accordingly, it is an advantage of the present invention that an engineering services coordinating system and method therefor is provided.
It is another advantage of the present invention that a hyperdatabase is provided that manages a large number of independent CAE application libraries.
It is another advantage of the present invention that a program database is provided in a hyperdatabase for each CAE application program wherein each program database encompasses a CAE application library associated with that CAE application program.
It is another advantage of the present invention that a data extraction routine is provided that extracts from a program database associated with a given CAE application program a CAE product library comprising a product-specific subset of a CAE application library for that CAE application program.
It is another advantage of the present invention that a link table is provided that cross-links components instantiated by one CAE application library with like components instantiated by other CAE application libraries.
It is another advantage of the present invention that a method is provided to expand a CAE application library associated with a given CAE application program without altering the integrity of that library.
It is another advantage of the present invention that a method is provided for the extraction of data from any combination of CAE application libraries.
It is another advantage of the present invention that efficient engineering results from reliance upon a hyperdatabase that manages a large number of independent CAE application libraries.
The above and other advantages of the present invention are carried out in one form by a method for coordinating engineering services.
These services are provided using a plurality of computer-aided engineering (CAE) application programs, each of which programs has one of a plurality of CAE application libraries, each of which libraries contains a plurality of CAE application records, and each of which records instantiates one of a plurality of components
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