Abstract
Digital collaboration is defined as man and man collaboration through computer network. Production system with human resource is thought as a product system. A product has it′s product life cycle and in each phase of this life cycle there exists some collaborations between man and machine. In the same way, the production system has it′s life cycle and collaboration phases. In this paper, how a digital collaboration system is related to manufacturing system that is a subset of the production system. A platform for digital collaboration is proposed. And some ways of collaboration of this platform are proposed for new manufacturing system life cycle.