Presented at: FinSE 2001 (2nd "Nordic Systems Engineering" seminar (Finland) “The ESA Concurrent Design Facility (CDF): Concurrent Engineering applied to space mission assessments”Īuthor: Massimo Bandecchi, European Space Agency This CDF framework has many potential benefits, such as reduced cost of hardware, software and support, reduced preparation time, and easy to deploy. Google Talk and Skype can be used for communication with remote work teams. Some public cloud computing servers, such as Google Drive, SkyDrive, Dropbox, Mendeley, can be used in CDF to save cost on hardware and software related to data, file, and information exchange. Emergence and development of cloud computing has made these requirements relatively easy to be fulfilled. An important aspect of CDF is collaboration between multidisciplinary specialists or virtual specialists within one environment, which requires dedicated hardware or software to exchange file, manage knowledge, collaborative work on writing report, and even remote communicate with other work teams. This paper gives an overview of CDF configurations in use at different industries, research organisations and universities around the world and concludes with a proposal for a relatively a low cost CDF framework based on cloud computing which is particularly suitable for aerospace engineering education.
In aerospace engineering education, CDF can be invaluable by enabling student teams to gain cross-discipline skills and at the same time stay at the cutting edge of technology. Concurrent Design Facility (CDF) is an effective IT environment to apply Concurrent Engineering principles.
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