Workflow Enabled data Processing in a Concurrent Engineering Environment
Sam George, K. David · Procedia Technology · 2016
Knowledge, information and data hold the key for growth and continuous sustenance in any organization. However, flow of this information and data across inter disciplinary departments to authorized personnel ensures the authencity and accuracy of this data while in transit. Workflow can be devised as a tool used purely in electronic data processing environment where data is to be transmitted across heterogeneous departments handled by personnel belonging to diverse engineering backgrounds. This proves itself to have a catalytic effect in product oriented, process oriented and data processing modes of working in an industry through its pre-set rules, procedures and flexible modes of operation. Further, the same workflow methodology can be used in web based applications which only requires installation of the particular tool in server machine, thus providing the freedom from independent client installations. Enhancing the operational ability of workflow can provide information on the approximate time taken for data processing in various inter-disciplinary departments involving process oriented, product oriented and data processing modes of working.