Template-based integrated design environment for rocket design

Aiming at the complexity and high iteration of rocket design, a template-based Integrated Design Environment (TIDE) is proposed to provide a uniform design environment, reduce the interactions with program applications, decrease the communication obstacles and achieve rapid design. Some important methodologies such as Integrated Design Environment (IDE), Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) and Knowledge Management (KM) are employed in this environment to simplify the design activity. The architecture of this environment is presented first, and the main modules of this architecture and their functions are interpreted. And then a typical design process in rocket design is presented to illustrate the running mechanism of this environment. A prototype system of this architecture has been developed and through the running of this system on some cases, the results show that the environment is practicable.