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Bernhard Mitschang - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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cooperative service registries for the service based Product Lifecycle Management architecture
Computer Supported Cooperative Work in Design, 2013Co-Authors: Stefan Silcher, Jan Konigsberger, Peter Reimann, Bernhard MitschangAbstract:Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) comprises many different tasks across multiple domains, such as Product development and Production. Thus, multidisciplinary engineering teams have to collaborate to successfully design and produce Products. Nowadays, engineers are supported with many software solutions, which are tailored to the work of each engineer. The problem is the missing or bad integration between these IT solutions, which leads to noncontinuous processes and an insufficient cooperation. The Service-oriented Architecture (SOA) supports the needed flexible integration of applications based on services and moreover an automation and integration of processes via workflows. In previous work, we proposed a service-oriented PLM architecture that provides these benefits and supports continuous processes. Thereby, services of different domains and phases of the Product life cycle need to collaborate in a distributed fashion. In this paper, we systematically identify, define and rate representative models for the Management of corresponding distributed service registries, which enable an efficient collaboration of services. Based on a prototypical implementation of the best-rated model in a layout redesign scenario, we assess our approach for its suitability in PLM. The selected service registry model provides transparent access to all services of different domains and shows the ease of integrating new applications into the Product life cycle. It thereby enables an improved cooperation of engineers across various domains to define cross-domain processes.
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a novel approach to Product Lifecycle Management based on service hierarchies
2012Co-Authors: Stefan Silcher, Jorge Minguez, Bernhard MitschangAbstract:In grown IT infrastructures for Product Lifecycle Management (PLM), applications are mostly interconnected using point-to-point interfaces. This leads to complex and unmanageable infrastructures. A continuous and efficient integration is a key requirement for successful PLM implementations. The Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) is a prevalent solution to efficiently integrate legacy applications and systems into business processes. Its possibility for loose coupling of services enables the replacement of point-to-point interfaces, this way reducing the complexity of managing and maintaining the IT infrastructure. This article introduces a SOA-based solution to the integration of all PLM phases. We employ an Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) as service-based integration and communication infrastructure and introduce three exemplary scenarios to illustrate the benefits of using an ESB as compared to alternative PLM infrastructures. Furthermore, we describe a service hierarchy that extends PLM functionality with value-added services by mapping business processes to data integration services.
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A service-based approach for next-generation Product Lifecycle Management
2010 IEEE International Conference on Information Reuse & Integration, 2010Co-Authors: Stefan Silcher, Jorge Minguez, Thorsten Scheibler, Bernhard MitschangAbstract:Nowadays, one of the main challenges for companies is the effective Management of IT-systems. In times where requirements and companies change steadily, the IT-infrastructure has to adopt these changes as well: new systems have to be integrated or existing adapted. Even worse, these systems work together to support business processes of a company and, thus, the infrastructures becomes complex and difficult to manage. The same situation is true for Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) that accompanies a Product development by means of interconnected IT systems running on complex IT infrastructures. This paper introduces a viable solution to the integration of all phases of PLM. An Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) is employed as the service-based integration and communication infrastructure. Three exemplary scenarios are introduced to describe the benefits of using an ESB as compared to alternative PLM infrastructures. Furthermore, we introduce a service hierarchy to enable value-added services to enhance PLM functionality.
Stefan Silcher - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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cooperative service registries for the service based Product Lifecycle Management architecture
Computer Supported Cooperative Work in Design, 2013Co-Authors: Stefan Silcher, Jan Konigsberger, Peter Reimann, Bernhard MitschangAbstract:Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) comprises many different tasks across multiple domains, such as Product development and Production. Thus, multidisciplinary engineering teams have to collaborate to successfully design and produce Products. Nowadays, engineers are supported with many software solutions, which are tailored to the work of each engineer. The problem is the missing or bad integration between these IT solutions, which leads to noncontinuous processes and an insufficient cooperation. The Service-oriented Architecture (SOA) supports the needed flexible integration of applications based on services and moreover an automation and integration of processes via workflows. In previous work, we proposed a service-oriented PLM architecture that provides these benefits and supports continuous processes. Thereby, services of different domains and phases of the Product life cycle need to collaborate in a distributed fashion. In this paper, we systematically identify, define and rate representative models for the Management of corresponding distributed service registries, which enable an efficient collaboration of services. Based on a prototypical implementation of the best-rated model in a layout redesign scenario, we assess our approach for its suitability in PLM. The selected service registry model provides transparent access to all services of different domains and shows the ease of integrating new applications into the Product life cycle. It thereby enables an improved cooperation of engineers across various domains to define cross-domain processes.
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a novel approach to Product Lifecycle Management based on service hierarchies
2012Co-Authors: Stefan Silcher, Jorge Minguez, Bernhard MitschangAbstract:In grown IT infrastructures for Product Lifecycle Management (PLM), applications are mostly interconnected using point-to-point interfaces. This leads to complex and unmanageable infrastructures. A continuous and efficient integration is a key requirement for successful PLM implementations. The Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) is a prevalent solution to efficiently integrate legacy applications and systems into business processes. Its possibility for loose coupling of services enables the replacement of point-to-point interfaces, this way reducing the complexity of managing and maintaining the IT infrastructure. This article introduces a SOA-based solution to the integration of all PLM phases. We employ an Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) as service-based integration and communication infrastructure and introduce three exemplary scenarios to illustrate the benefits of using an ESB as compared to alternative PLM infrastructures. Furthermore, we describe a service hierarchy that extends PLM functionality with value-added services by mapping business processes to data integration services.
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A service-based approach for next-generation Product Lifecycle Management
2010 IEEE International Conference on Information Reuse & Integration, 2010Co-Authors: Stefan Silcher, Jorge Minguez, Thorsten Scheibler, Bernhard MitschangAbstract:Nowadays, one of the main challenges for companies is the effective Management of IT-systems. In times where requirements and companies change steadily, the IT-infrastructure has to adopt these changes as well: new systems have to be integrated or existing adapted. Even worse, these systems work together to support business processes of a company and, thus, the infrastructures becomes complex and difficult to manage. The same situation is true for Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) that accompanies a Product development by means of interconnected IT systems running on complex IT infrastructures. This paper introduces a viable solution to the integration of all phases of PLM. An Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) is employed as the service-based integration and communication infrastructure. Three exemplary scenarios are introduced to describe the benefits of using an ESB as compared to alternative PLM infrastructures. Furthermore, we introduce a service hierarchy to enable value-added services to enhance PLM functionality.
Robert I M Young - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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extending Product Lifecycle Management for manufacturing knowledge sharing
Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers Part B: Journal of Engineering Manufacture, 2012Co-Authors: Nitishal Chungoora, George A Gunendran, Robert I M Young, Najam A Anjum, Annefrancoise Cuttingdecelle, Zahid Usman, Keith Case, Claire Palmer, Jennifer A. HardingAbstract:Product Lifecycle Management provides a framework for information sharing that promotes various types of decision-making procedures. For Product Lifecycle Management to advance towards knowledge-driven decision support, then this demands more than simply exchanging information. There is, therefore, a need to formally capture best practice through-life engineering knowledge that can be fed back across the Product Lifecycle. This article investigates the interoperable manufacturing knowledge systems concept. Interoperable manufacturing knowledge systems use an expressive ontological approach that drives the improved configuration of Product Lifecycle Management systems for manufacturing knowledge sharing. An ontology of relevant core Product Lifecycle concepts is identified from which viewpoint-specific domains, such as design and manufacture, can be formalised. Essential ontology-based mechanisms are accommodated to support the verification and sharing of manufacturing knowledge across domains. The work ha...
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extending Product Lifecycle Management for manufacturing knowledge sharing
Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers Part B: Journal of Engineering Manufacture, 2012Co-Authors: Nitishal Chungoora, George A Gunendran, Robert I M Young, Najam A Anjum, Annefrancoise Cuttingdecelle, Zahid Usman, Keith Case, Claire Palmer, Jennifer A. HardingAbstract:Product Lifecycle Management provides a framework for information sharing that promotes various types of decisionmaking procedures. For Product Lifecycle Management to advance towards knowledge-driven decision support, then this demands more than simply exchanging information. There is, therefore, a need to formally capture best practice through-life engineering knowledge that can be fed back across the Product Lifecycle. This article investigates the interoperable manufacturing knowledge systems concept. Interoperable manufacturing knowledge systems use an expressive ontological approach that drives the improved configuration of Product Lifecycle Management systems for manufacturing knowledge sharing. An ontology of relevant core Product Lifecycle concepts is identified from which viewpoint-specific domains, such as design and manufacture, can be formalised. Essential ontology-based mechanisms are accommodated to support the verification and sharing of manufacturing knowledge across domains. The work has been experimentally assessed using an aerospace compressor disc design and manufacture example. While it has been demonstrated that the approach supports the representation of disparate design and manufacture perspectives as well as manufacturing knowledge feedback in a timely manner, areas for improvement have also been identified for future work.
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Extending Product Lifecycle Management for manufacturing knowledge sharing
Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers Part B: Journal of Engineering Manufacture, 2012Co-Authors: Nitishal Chungoora, Robert I M Young, Najam A Anjum, Zahid Usman, Keith Case, Claire Palmer, Jennifer A. Harding, A. George Gunendran, Anne-françoise Cutting-decelleAbstract:Product Lifecycle Management provides a framework for information sharing that promotes various types of decision-making procedures. For Product Lifecycle Management to advance towards knowledge-dr...
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methods for the capture of manufacture best practice in Product Lifecycle Management
International Journal of Production Research, 2010Co-Authors: Anantharajah George Gunendran, Robert I M YoungAbstract:The capture of manufacturing best practice knowledge in Product Lifecycle Management systems has significant potential to improve the quality of design decisions and minimise manufacturing problems during new Product development. However, providing a reusable source of manufacturing best practice is difficult due to the complexity of the viewpoint relationships between Products and the manufacturing processes and resources used to produce them. This paper discusses how best to organise manufacturing best practice knowledge, the relationships between elements of this knowledge plus their relationship to Product information. The paper also explores the application of UML-2 as a system design tool which can model these relationships and hence support the reuse of system design models over time. The paper identifies a set of part family and feature libraries and, most significantly, the relationships between them, as a means of capturing best practice manufacturing knowledge and illustrates how these can be linked to manufacturing resource models and Product information. Design for manufacture and machining best practice views are used in the paper to illustrate the concepts developed. An experimental knowledge based system has been developed and results generated using a power transmission shaft example.
Pauline Found - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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towards lean Product Lifecycle Management
Journal of Manufacturing Technology Management, 2006Co-Authors: Peter Hines, Mark Francis, Pauline FoundAbstract:Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to discuss a holistic framework for guiding applied research within the field of new Product development. This work is a precursor to developing a framework for undertaking lean Product Lifecycle Management (PLM).Design/methodology/approach – The research approach taken in this work has been based around theory development from a review and synthesis of a range of primary industry cases, practical approaches and partial solutions available within the existing literature.Findings – The result is a six‐step theoretical framework that can be used as a point of reference for academics discussing the development of systemic approaches to the subject, as well as those from industry searching for a framework for their new Product development activity. At this point the framework as a whole has not been tested, although each of the various elements has been successfully applied in isolation. The implications of this paper are that the existing technical Product development l...
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towards lean Product Lifecycle Management a framework for new Product development
Journal of Manufacturing Technology Management, 2006Co-Authors: Peter Hines, Mark Francis, Pauline FoundAbstract:Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to discuss a holistic framework for guiding applied research within the field of new Product development. This work is a precursor to developing a framework for undertaking lean Product Lifecycle Management (PLM).Design/methodology/approach – The research approach taken in this work has been based around theory development from a review and synthesis of a range of primary industry cases, practical approaches and partial solutions available within the existing literature.Findings – The result is a six‐step theoretical framework that can be used as a point of reference for academics discussing the development of systemic approaches to the subject, as well as those from industry searching for a framework for their new Product development activity. At this point the framework as a whole has not been tested, although each of the various elements has been successfully applied in isolation. The implications of this paper are that the existing technical Product development l...
Annefrancoise Cuttingdecelle - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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extending Product Lifecycle Management for manufacturing knowledge sharing
Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers Part B: Journal of Engineering Manufacture, 2012Co-Authors: Nitishal Chungoora, George A Gunendran, Robert I M Young, Najam A Anjum, Annefrancoise Cuttingdecelle, Zahid Usman, Keith Case, Claire Palmer, Jennifer A. HardingAbstract:Product Lifecycle Management provides a framework for information sharing that promotes various types of decision-making procedures. For Product Lifecycle Management to advance towards knowledge-driven decision support, then this demands more than simply exchanging information. There is, therefore, a need to formally capture best practice through-life engineering knowledge that can be fed back across the Product Lifecycle. This article investigates the interoperable manufacturing knowledge systems concept. Interoperable manufacturing knowledge systems use an expressive ontological approach that drives the improved configuration of Product Lifecycle Management systems for manufacturing knowledge sharing. An ontology of relevant core Product Lifecycle concepts is identified from which viewpoint-specific domains, such as design and manufacture, can be formalised. Essential ontology-based mechanisms are accommodated to support the verification and sharing of manufacturing knowledge across domains. The work ha...
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extending Product Lifecycle Management for manufacturing knowledge sharing
Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers Part B: Journal of Engineering Manufacture, 2012Co-Authors: Nitishal Chungoora, George A Gunendran, Robert I M Young, Najam A Anjum, Annefrancoise Cuttingdecelle, Zahid Usman, Keith Case, Claire Palmer, Jennifer A. HardingAbstract:Product Lifecycle Management provides a framework for information sharing that promotes various types of decisionmaking procedures. For Product Lifecycle Management to advance towards knowledge-driven decision support, then this demands more than simply exchanging information. There is, therefore, a need to formally capture best practice through-life engineering knowledge that can be fed back across the Product Lifecycle. This article investigates the interoperable manufacturing knowledge systems concept. Interoperable manufacturing knowledge systems use an expressive ontological approach that drives the improved configuration of Product Lifecycle Management systems for manufacturing knowledge sharing. An ontology of relevant core Product Lifecycle concepts is identified from which viewpoint-specific domains, such as design and manufacture, can be formalised. Essential ontology-based mechanisms are accommodated to support the verification and sharing of manufacturing knowledge across domains. The work has been experimentally assessed using an aerospace compressor disc design and manufacture example. While it has been demonstrated that the approach supports the representation of disparate design and manufacture perspectives as well as manufacturing knowledge feedback in a timely manner, areas for improvement have also been identified for future work.