The last few years have seen the introduction of several techniques for automatically tackling some aspects of compliance checking between business processes and business rules. Some of them are quite robust and mature and are provided with software support that partially or fully implement them. However, as far as we know there is not yet a tool that provides for the complete management of bus...

Hyperdocuments present special requirements for integration with lifecycle and versioning systems. These requirements can best be summarized as "versioned linking", something not addressed by merely versioning the storage objects involved. The overriding challenge in versioned linking is resolving the correct version at the end of a link -where "correct" is defined by arbitrary business policy....

Mismatches between electronic part procurement lifecycles and the lifecycles of the products that they are used in cause products with long manufacturing and/or support lives to incur significant obsolescence management costs. Lifetime buy is one of the most prevalent mitigation approaches employed for electronic part obsolescence management. Making lifetime purchases of parts when they go obso...

This study presents an experimental methodology to measure how concept generation procedures can affect the anticipated lifecycle performance of engineering systems design concepts. The methodology is based on objective and quantitative measurements of anticipated lifecycle performance of the design concepts. It merges cognitive and computer-aided techniques from the fields of collaboration eng...

In the field of Ecodesign, in which answers to questions “why”, “what”, and “how” have been largely studied past, lack implementation industry remains an issue. The literature lacks insights into question combined with “who” for ecodesign implementation. aim this paper is propose a concept knowledge holder, called lifecycle engineer, specific that can support team or organization process its mo...

Product lifecycle management is an important aspect of today’s industry, as it serves to facilitate information exchange and management between most, if not all, stages of a product’s existence. As exchanged product information is inevitably subjected to multiple transformations and derivations, information transparency between lifecycle stages can be difficult to achieve. Synthesizing represen...

This paper discusses the requirements for developing Mobile Model-based Bridge Lifecycle Management Systems (MMBLMSs). These new systems should link all the information about the lifecycle stages of a bridge (e.g., construction, inspection and maintenance) to a 4D model of the bridge incorporating different scales of space and time in order to record events throughout the lifecycle with suitabl...