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Brought to you in part by the Atlanta ECRC, these pages are intended to help us identify the information technology a service bureau/end user needs to create/access an Internet-based service such as this.
Note that the interactions between an Engineering Service Bureau and its client company are fundamentally different from the interactions between a Prime contractor and a Small Manufacturing Enterprise. The interactions between a Prime and an SME are semi-static process, where the prime expects a quote and eventually a finished product from the SME. There is not an expectation of an iterative process (although an iterative process may occur if the design as submitted is not manufacturable). The interactions between an Engineering Service Bureau and its client company (the SME) is expected to be dynamic and interactive in almost all cases, however. The SME utilizes the Engineering Service Bureau to help it make design and manufacturing decisions, a scenario which is only meaningful if there are several "what-if" situations to test.
The working drafts of these guidelines can be found below.
For more information, contact Russell Peak (peak@cad.gatech.edu) or any other members of the GT TIGER Group.