PEGASE: a prototype of software to manage design system in a collaborative design environment

The control of the design process requires to take into account three narrowly overlapping dimensions relating to the product, as an object to be defined, the process, as a generator of this object and finally the organization. Within the framework of the work undertaken during the IPPOP project, an integrated model was proposed with a view to development of a prototype of software. We are interested here in the software tool which can be brought to the actors to manage design process by correlating the organization of the company and the definition of product development process with the structure of the design projects and the control of the real process. This tool is materialized by the development of the PEGASE software for which we present an application inspired of an industrial case study in SME.