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Notes:
- TIGER was a DARPA-sponsored program (completed Feb 1997) .
- The goal of TIGER was to demonstrate a collaborative design and manufacturing scenario in which a small manufacturing enterprise (SME) exchanged design information with the prime contractor early in the design process, thus reducing the iterations necessary to produce a successful design.
- For this purpose, a suite of design, manufacturing, and communications tools integrated across the Internet was made available to the product development team.
- The domain demonstrated was the design, fabrication, and assembly of printed wiring boards (PWBs) and printed wiring assemblies (PWAs).
- In the TIGER scenario, a PWA designer generates PWA/B design information that is sent to a PWB manufacturer in STEP AP210 format. When the PWB manufacturer receives this file, he uploads it to an Internet-based engineering service bureau over the Internet that provides a variety of design and analysis services including design-for-manufacturability (DFM) and thermomechanical analysis.
- These services are integrated in an analysis environment developed for TIGER called DaiTools-PWA/B.
