ENRICHING PRODUCT INFORMATION DURING THE PRODUCT LIFECYCLE

Enriching Product Information during the Product Lifecycle

A manufactured product usually has a great amount of design knowledge and other product information associated with it in CAD drawings and other technical documentation. Today, such product information mainly enables preventive maintenance of products. By collecting usage, performance and maintenance information about the product, it could be possible to perform more predictive maintenance. The...

A product information modeling framework for product lifecycle management

The Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) concept holds the promise of seamlessly integrating all the information produced throughout all phases of a product’s life cycle to everyone in an organization at every managerial and technical level, along with key suppliers and customers. PLM systems are tools that implement the PLM concept. As such, they need the capability to serve up the information r...

Integrations during the Complete Product Lifecycle

Software Product Line Engineering (SPLE) is an increasingly often employed approach for developing variant-rich software-intensive systems. Its basic idea is to exploit commonalities of several similar, yet different products throughout the entire product lifecycle. To exploit commonalities, developers of software product lines need to explicitly define and manage the differences (variabilities...

Engineering Information Infrastructure for Product Lifecycle Managment

For proper management of total product life cycle, it is fundamentally important to systematize design and engineering information about product systems. For example, maintenance operation could be more efficiently performed, if appropriate parts design information is available at the maintenance site. Such information shall be available as an information infrastructure for various kinds of eng...

Axiomatic Product Development Lifecycle