Enterprise models of engineering design involve multiple distributed design teamswith heterogeneous skills cooperating together in order to achieve global optima in design.The success of this distributed design organization depends on critical factors such as the efficientmanagement of the design related information circulated in the distributed environmentand the support for the necessary cooperation processes among participants dispersed acrossthe enterprise. This paper proposes a multi-agent design information management system toaid the new enterprise model by supporting the synthesis and presentation of information todistributed teams for the purposes of enhancing design, learning, creativity, communicationand productivity. Enabled by multi-agent systems and information ontologies, the proposedsystem facilitates interoperation among distributed resources and knowledge sharing, reuseand integration in a distributed design environment.