Web Education Portal for the Teaching of Mechanical Design and Manufacturing

In the field of design and manufacturing in mechanical engineering, it is difficult to give an overview of lecturing steps because of the splitting up of required knowledge and the expertise level of the teachers. According to the OPALYS project objectives, we present the application of an approach of documents sharing enabled by the use of XML language. We detail the chosen conformity structure for the various kinds of documents. We also detail the choices that were made in order to create links between the documents, while the authors did not know exactly their integration context. The main encountered difficulty is related to the XML tools that did not yet become mature enough for not expert users. The developed demonstrator is then presented in its main functionalities and highlights the relevancy of our approach.