在全球化經濟的衝擊下，造船廠將其組織流程最佳化並且嘗試以新的協同運作方式以增進其競爭優勢。資訊交換技術的進步已經使所謂的「即時」溝通變得可行而無關乎參與者所在的地理位置，這也使得選擇電子協同做為平衡溝通、團隊合作工具與技術的個人或造船廠戲劇化地改善溝通與產能。
本文提出三階段的方略作為「整合產品協同環境」主要的發展與完成策略。「整合產品協同環境」藉由物件導向與網路技術快速的演進，配合內部資源在標準資訊可互通性的協定下，早已成為船廠對抗激烈競爭的首要發展方向。爲了取代以往昂貴的點對點整合，本文開創一先進且開放的作業平台使各地區的參與者不僅能共同發展產品、協調不同的應用程式與元件，而且使得在全面的溝通過程中擁有整合、一致的資料。
「整合產品協同環境」計畫在以具較佳的成本效益下發展並部署；整合的工程資訊系統可使船舶在較低成本下有較佳的設計與生產品質及較短的資料擷取週期。本文描述在這些不同專業領域系統下的資料分享與協同架構的發展與結果，及如何提升產品資訊流以獲得利基。

In order to increase competitive advantages under the impact of the globalization economies, shipbuilding enterprises optimize their organizational processes, and undertake new manipulations of collaboration in particular. Advances in information exchange technology (such as the Internet), have made communication in “real time” possible irrespective of the geographic location of participants that has dramatically increased connectivity and productivity for individuals and companies, who have elected to leverage communication, teaming tools and technology such as electronic collaboration.
Three-stage schemes are proposed and used as the principle strategies to develop and implement IPCE. In virtue of rapid evolutions of OO and Web technologies, cooperating interior resources on the basis of the standard interoperability protocols, the development of IPCE has been the primary direction against fierce competitions. To supersede used costly point-to-point integration, the advanced and open platforms to not only co-develop parts by partners at different geographical locations, coordinate dissimilar applications and application components, but also facilitate the overall communication process to provide the integrated and consistent data, have paid much attention to develop.
The objective of IPCE Project is to develop and deploy more cost effective; integrated engineering information systems will lead to lower costs of ship design and production, better quality ships and shorter data acquisition cycles. A serial of relevant researches has started since 2001. This dissertation describes the developments and consequences of the data-sharing collaborative frameworks of the multidiscipline systems, which streamline the product information flow to take advantage of these new tools and gain the niche.

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