Cross-Domain Configuration Management Hub
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current configuration management systems are monolithic and domain-specific, lacking the ability to effectively manage cross-domain collaborative revisions and maintain consistency across different development domains in multi-disciplinary projects.
Innovation Solution
A computerized method and system for cross-domain collaborative revision management, utilizing a collaborative relationship hub to monitor and synchronize local revisions from multiple projects, creating a collaborative baseline that integrates instructions for generating a common product across various domains.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If monolithic domain-specific configuration management systems are used, then system integrity within a single domain is maintained, but cross-domain collaboration and consistency are lost
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces a central configuration management server as an intermediary that connects multiple domain-specific configuration management systems. This server receives configuration data from different domains (software, hardware, mechanical), stores it in a unified configuration database, and enables cross-domain traceability and consistency without requiring changes to the existing domain-specific tools and workflows.
2Reliability
If independent domain-specific configuration management systems are used, then domain expertise and control are maintained, but system-wide traceability and consistency are compromised
Solution Approach 1:
The configuration management server provides universal functionality by serving multiple domains simultaneously. It implements a standardized configuration data model that can represent software, hardware, and mechanical configurations uniformly, enabling system-wide traceability while preserving domain-specific details through the unified model's flexibility.
Solution Approach 2:
The system segments configuration management into domain-specific components (each maintaining their own tools and workflows) and a central coordinating component (the configuration management server). This segmentation allows each domain to maintain its expertise while the central server ensures system-wide consistency and traceability.
3Stability of the object's composition
If centralized configuration control is implemented across all domains, then system consistency is improved, but domain-specific workflow flexibility is reduced
Solution Approach 1:
The system dynamically adapts to different domain-specific workflows while maintaining configuration consistency. Each domain can operate with its own processes and tools, and the configuration management server dynamically integrates these diverse workflows into a coherent system-wide configuration state, allowing flexibility at the domain level and consistency at the system level.
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AI summary
A computerized method for cross-domain collaborative revision management of a common product. The method comprises: Monitoring a plurality of local revisions for each of a plurality of projects associated with the common product, each of the plurality of projects managed in one of a plurality of domain-specific configuration management tools; creating a collaborative baseline within a collaborative relationship hub synchronizing between a group of the plurality of local revisions selected from each of the plurality of projects; and assembling instructions of generating the common product according to the collaborative baseline.