The Analysis of Efficiency of Application of the Concept of CALS in Life Cycle of Products of Mechanical Engineering

Abstract

The approach to design and production of hi-tech and knowledge-intensive products consisting in use of the computer equipment and information technologies at all stages of life cycle of a product. Use of CALS technologies allows to reduce significantly the project scope as descriptions of many components of the equipment, the machines and systems projected earlier are stored in the unified formats of these network servers available to any user of CALS technologies.