Active Driving Content in RFLP Structured Product Model

Engineering application of advanced computer methods has been developed into product lifecycle management (PLM) which relies upon single but very complex and comprehensive model of product. Recently, generic product models are in the possession of self adaptive capability for the generation their instances considering well defined situations and events. The Laboratory of Intelligent Engineering Systems (LIES) at the Óbuda University, Budapest, Hungary joined to efforts in research for new product modeling methods in this area. One of recent LIES researches targets new methods for requirements engineering (RE) based and relevant company intelligent property (IP) driven generation of elements in requirements, functional, logical, and physical (RFLP) structure based product models. This seems suitable contribution to solutions for unified conceptual modeling of multidisciplinary products. In this paper, discussion of essential problem with modeling increasingly multidisciplinary industrial products in engineering is followed by discussion of recent issues of RFLP structured product model in PLM system. In this context, contributions in this paper are new concept of multilevel abstraction for mechanical and materials engineering centered PLM model, control of RFLP structure element generation by the new multilevel initiative, behavior, context, and action (IBCA) structure, and the integration of IBCA structure in PLM model.