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What is TRMS?
Since a number of years enhanced collaboration is one of major trends in industry. Collaborative engineering (CE) is a new paradigm for product development which integrates widely distributed engineers for virtual collaboration. The major obstacle in stronger proliferation of CE practices is the lack of appropriate infrastructures suitable for distributed engineering work. Tool Registration and Management System (TRMS) is an innovative solution that constitutes a kernel of the collaborative infrastructure, as it enables distance-spanning tool integration. Once registered, tools provide their services to distributed engineers. Advanced service discovery methods are used to connect to the most appropriate service with respect to optimal availability within the current configuration of the virtual engineering network. TRMS guarantees secure data transfer with authentication and authorisation of users, as well as it includes security management mechanisms that allow administrator to monitor users' activity and to execute a proper security policy. TRMS allows design teams to make their resources available to the others. It is thus intended for distributed engineer groups collaborating on the same project and using shared tools.

TRMS Key Features
TRMS enables to use tools that have been installed in geographically dispersed locations. Built-in mechanisms make tool integration very easy. This means straightforward tool registration and invocation. TRMS provides a user with a comfortable interface - the TRMS Client for looking for a required tool. It makes user’s work more efficient and saves his/her time. Only tools pre-registred in the system may be searched for. Registered tools are configured for integration due to automatically generated XML-based interfaces. Of course, one needs rights to use a particular tool. Management of users and their multilevel privileges is a strong asset of the system. Cryptography techniques and digital signature technology protect project data on their way through the network, as well as protect access to the system. Advanced Network Transport Service (ANTS) enable exchange of project data through existing firewall systems without a need for their reconfiguration. TRMS has its own workflow management system that simplifies management of tasks realised by a distributed engineering environment. TRMS uses ecollegML markup language for description of: tools, tasks, and workflows.

With TRMS one can

register a tool, also in other format supported by XSLT
search for information on registered tools
invoke required tool through firewalls
establish a connection through a proxy server
define user privileges on accessing tools
create a simple workflow
and much more ...