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- From: foggh@julius.crd.ge.com (H.W. Fogg)
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- Subject: Re: Engineer's Journal sw
- Message-ID: <1993Jan9.195026.5360@crd.ge.com>
- Date: 9 Jan 93 19:50:26 GMT
- References: <76286@apple.apple.COM>
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- In article <76286@apple.apple.COM>, billc@Apple.COM (Bill Cockayne) writes:
- |>I know that many engineer's were forced to keep log books (or lab books)
- |>during some period of there college career. And it seems that many of us have
- |>picked up this horrible habit and continue to do it in industry. But I have
- |>noticed one thing that I have noticed is lacking and that is the creation of
- |>a really useful online version of our lab books.
- |>
- |>Is this simply because the marketing bozos don't think there is a market? Are
- |>we too timimd to ask for them, and too busy to write one ourselves? Do we
- |>even want such a thing? Are there legal reprecussion having all your notes on
- |>the computer instead of on poaper (ie, patents)?
- |>
- |>Any thoughts, ideas, etc?
- |>
- |>bill cockayne
- |>Apple Computer, Inc.
- |>billc@apple.com
- |>
- |>DISCLAIMER: I speak only for myself.
- |>
- |>ps - If someone were to try to write and engineers' tool, what would it
- |>include as its pieces? Would each discipline need its own module? ....
-
- As part of the DARPA Initiative in Concurrent Engineering,
- the Research and Development Center of General Electric
- developed 2 different Electronic Design Notebook (EDN)
- implementations.
-
- Both EDNs were based on commercial tools and frameworks in
- the UNIX environment.
- One was based on Framemaker and the other was based on Aster*x.
- Aster*x is an office automation product by Applix and contains a
- word processing module, a graphics module, a spreadsheet module,
- and a mail module.
- There is currently a MS Windows version in development, based
- on MS Word and MS Excel.
- An Apple McIntosh version based on WingZ was started but stopped
- due to the lack of an interested customer.
-
- Note that a large part of the EDN is its link into a framework of
- engineering design tools. I don't have enough time or space here
- to describe these frameworks or all of the tools that we built
- into the frameworks.
-
- A number of general principles have been identified and white
- papers have been generated. There is an in depth case study of
- a pilot site where some of the tools were used. Case study
- and marketing videos have also been produced.
-
- Any company that performs work for the Defense Dept. can get
- access to most of this stuff, most including source code.
- Some from The Center for Concurrent Engineering (CERC) in
- West Virginia, and some for the GE Research and Development
- Center in upstate NY.
-
- Information can also be provided to other major industrial
- companies depending on competition and level of interest factors.
-
- Email me if you want to know how to get additional information.
-
- H. William Fogg
- Senior Consultant
- Keane Associates
- (at GE Corporate Research and Development)
-
-
- P.S.
- Stevens Institute of Technology at Hoboken, NJ is currently
- developing an EDN. They are starting from "scratch" instead
- of using commercial tools and frameworks.
-