Integrated Worm Design based on Distributed Heterogeneous System.
Daizhong Su, Shuyan Ji · 2006
Abstract- Worm gear design to professional standards normally involves the cooperation amongst the experts from multiple disciplines such as geometrical design, stress analysis, material selection, manufacturing, vibration simulation, etc. These experts might be in different organizations, located in different geographical regions and utilize different software tools and applications, which might be written in different languages, ported on different platforms and linked to different networks. In order to construct a collaborative environment for integrated worm gearing design, heterogeneity of these resources has to be taken into consideration. This paper presents a collaborative system for integrated worm gearing design based on CORBA distributed computing technology. All the software-based design applications and tools can be integrated together and communicated with each other, regardless of languages and platforms. This makes it easy to develop the complex distributed system using multiple programs and to construct an integrated collaborative design environment for implementing complex design tasks.