現今大多數的企業都致力於縮短設計產品的前製時間、減少預算和成本以維持競爭力。然而，設計流程中資訊的反覆傳遞和複雜密集性造成規劃和排程上的困難，因此一個成功的設計專案全仰賴所獲得資訊的品質，於是一個可以整合各方資訊的協同開發平台的概念就產生了。 我們的研究目的是提出一個流程導向的設計方法論以建構一個協同產品開發的平台。簡言之， 這個協同產品開發的平台採用物件導向的分析方法論來規劃系統的規格與流程。為了減少產品設計的資訊往覆傳遞，我們應用設計結構矩陣去建立一個最佳設計流程模式以定義設計活動和需求來達到設計活動順序的最佳化。在規劃最佳流程之後， 我們應用統一塑模語言來定義系統需求、系統規格和系統元件並且定義彼此之間的關係。最後，我們採用汽車電子系統的協同開發流程為案例介紹來驗證整個方法論的執行步驟。 Today, most industries have to operate on shortened lead-time, reduced budget, and lower product cost to keep competitiveness. The iterative and information-intensive nature of the design process makes it hard to plan and schedule design tasks. The success of design projects depends on the quality of the available information. That’s the reason why the idea of Collaboration Product Development (CPD) Platform was born in this thesis. Our purpose of this research is to develop a Process-Oriented Methodology for Designing the Information Platform of collaborative product development. In brief, this system is adopted Object-Oriented Analysis and Design (OOAD) methodology in the software specification and creation processes. In order to reduce product design iteration, we use Design Structure Matrix (DSM) to build a design process model which defines the design tasks and their information requirements and optimizes the sequence of the tasks. And then we apply Unified Modeling Language (UML) to define system requirements, specifications and element relation. Finally, we will use automobile industry to be case study for demonstrate our methodology and framework.
