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This report describes the benefits and feasibility of ongoing efforts to develop and apply advanced engineering environments (AEEs) , which are defined in this report as particular implementations of computational and communications systems that create integrated virtual and/or distributed environments linking researchers, technologists, designers, manufacturers, suppliers, and customers.
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CURRENT SITUATION After contacting representatives of many government, industry, and academic organizations involved in the development and use of AEE technologies, the committee noted that many of these organizations face the same top-level challenges in terms of competitive pressure to reduce costs, increasing complexity in tools and systems, and the other items listed in the top box of Table ES-1. Although government agencies do not face the same competitive market forces as industry, technology-intensive agencies, such as the Department of Defense, the Department of Energy, the Federal Aviation Administration, and NASA are all charged with developing new systems to maximize organizational effectiveness and accomplish ambitious agency missions.
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government, industry, and academia . 1 1 Barriers · Integration of tools, systems, and data · Cultural, management, and economic issues lack of tool interoperability difficulty of justifying a strong corporate commitment proliferation of tools to implementing AEE technologies or systems existing investment in legacy systems lack of practical metrics for determining the · Information management effectiveness of AEEs proliferation of all types of information unknowns concerning implementation costs configuration-management issues · Education and training training of current workforce -education of future workforce Actions · Achieve consensus on AEE requirements · Overcome barriers · Achieve consensus on appropriate organizational roles, and plan future activities accordingly 1 - -- 1 AEE Vision aCAD = computer-aided design.
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In the commercial world, a reduction in product development cycle time helps manufacturers increase market share by enabling them to create new and better products more quickly than their competition. In the government sector, reducing product development time helps agencies complete projects sooner, thereby reducing costs and improving services or achieving mission objectives more quickly and ADVANCED ENGINEERING ENVIRONMENTS treeing personnel and other resources to move on to the next task.
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Proliferation of all types of information, which makes it difficult to identify and separate important information from the flood of available information 2. Difficulty of maintaining configuration management for product designs, processes, and resources Need to provide system "agility" so that different types of users can easily input, extract, understand, move, change, and store data using familiar formats and terminology '.
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This lack of commonality often requires that users customize commercially available tools before they can be used, which greatly reduces the cost effectiveness of using AEE tools. Corporate and government leaders should seize the opportunity to develop robust and flexible AEE tools for creating, managing, and assessing computergenerated data; presenting relevant data to operators clearly and efficiently; maintaining configuration management records for products, processes, and resources; and storing appropriate data on a long-term basis.
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This advisory panel could also identify areas of commonality between the capabilities of external organizations and NASA's own requirements. This would facilitate technology transfer and allow NASA to focus its ABE research and development on the areas of greatest need.
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