关键词: 协同产品开发, 工作流管理, 过程模型, 可扩展标记语言

Abstract: Product development in the enterprise alliance is often undertaken by several member enterprises. The developing procedure requires to be coordinated and controlled by the inter-enterprise Workflow Management System (WfMS). We discussed the special requirements of the workflow process model to the inter-enterprise collaborative product development， and presented a new workflow management architecture that is suitable for the collaborative product development on the Internet. And then， we developed a workflow process model that supports this architecture and proposed the definition of it based on XML technology. Lastly， we illustrated the advantages of this process model through a practical case.

Key words: collaborative product development, workflow management, process model