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In a globalised industry, it has been noted that an increase of interest in collaborative virtual environments as an alternative or extension to collaborating using CAD systems. The high product variety, the “mass customisation” of products, demands a collaboration chain. Collaborative chain includes the customers, managers, designers, manufacturers and suppliers for specific partial solutions and information exchange on remote locations. Our approach is combining the modelling system with virtual prototype via Web for evaluation of products, simultaneously involving their behaviour simulations. In order to avoid repetition of time-consuming virtual model preparation, product variety is defined in single XML file covering the various configurations. The uniform intranet/internet application combining Java, XML and VRML has been developed on Thin Client–Fat Server architecture.
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Hren, G., Jezernik, A. A framework for collaborative product review. Int J Adv Manuf Technol 42, 822–830 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00170-008-1622-2
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