A major challenge of any product engineering project is to support the creation, exchange, management and archival of information about product, process, people and services across the networked and extended enterprise covering the entire product lifecycle spectrum. An information support system for Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) requires a move from product data exchange to product informa...

Starting from the framework of Product Lifecycle Management (PLM), sustainability should be provided by continuous sharing of information among the different product lifecycle phases. A PLM system provides lifecycle knowledge generated by PLM systems through product lifecycle activities. The paper aims at presenting how PLM systems represent a very important foundation for achieving a more sust...

Since June 1986, the University of Pennsylvania has been under contract with the Coast Guard to provide support for the Coast Guard's KSS (knowledge-based decision support systems) project. A principal output of the KSS project has been Max, a DSS shell or environment, originally designed to support modeling tasks during decision making for ship acquisition. Max is innovative in a number of way...

Software lifecycle models differ in their artifacts as well as in the dependencies between the included tasks and activities. Therefore support-tools, which support these lifecycles, are typically specialized on a certain lifecycle. A tool for Scrum [5] for example may model user stories and sprints, but exclude risksless shift of the applied software lifecycle, e.g. from a heavyweight to an ag...

The potential benefits of the adoption cyber-physical production systems (CPPSs) and their significant role in enabling smart manufacturing is well recognized today. However, it less clear how such CPPS can be most effectively consistently engineered maintained throughout lifecycle due to existing divide information technology (IT) operational (OT) landscape ad hoc integration practices that re...

Existing models of industry lifecycle evolution tend to focus on changes in products and processes and largely overlook the importance of services. Sales of services, however, are becoming increasingly significant in the revenues of many industrial and high-technology firms either because of industry evolution or strategic decisions or both. In this paper, we extend lifecycle theory by explicit...

Computerization of research activities led to the creation of large specialized information resources, platforms, services and software to support scientific research. However, their shortcomings do not allow to fully realizing the comprehensive support of scientific activity, and the absence of a single entry point to divide the scientific community fragmented groups interests. The article bas...

Strategic trends towards service operations have been widely reported in the recent literature, but organisational capabilities to support such service-centred strategies are less well understood. This paper aims to identify the key organisational issues in managing complex engineering service operations throughout the lifecycle. Using instruments developed from the product lifecycle management...

During the selection, implementation and stabilization phases, as well as the operations and optimization phase of an ERP system (ERP-lifecycle), numerous companies consider to utilize the support of an external service provider. This paper analyses how different categories of knowledge influence the sourcing decision of crucial tasks within the ERP lifecycle. Based on a review of the IS outsou...