Designing Design Processes in Product Lifecycle Management: Research Issues and Strategies

2004 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jitesh H. Panchal ◽  
Marco Gero Ferna´ndez ◽  
Christiaan J. J. Paredis ◽  
Janet K. Allen ◽  
Farrokh Mistree
Keyword(s):  
Design Process ◽  
Integrated Design ◽  
Product Family ◽  
Product Lifecycle Management ◽  
Product Platform ◽  
Product Lifecycle ◽  
Research Issues ◽  
Design Processes ◽  
Resource Commitment ◽  
Lifecycle Management

Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) promises to further a holistic consideration of product design, emphasizing integration, interoperability, and sustainability throughout a product’s lifecycle. Thus far, efforts have focused on addressing lifecycle concerns from a product-centric perspective by exploiting the reusability and scalability of existing products through product platform and product family design. Not much attention has been paid to leveraging the design process and its design in addressing lifecycle considerations, however. In striving for sustainability, it is the design process that should be considered to constitute an engineering enterprise’s primary resource commitment. In this paper, an overview of the challenges inherent in designing design processes is provided. These challenges are subsequently illustrated with regard to several design scenarios of varying complexity, using an example involving the design of Linear Cellular Alloys. A distinction is made between product related requirements/goals and design process related requirements/goals. Requirements, research issues, and strategies for addressing the diverse needs of modeling design processes from a decision-centric perspective are established. Finally, key elements for enabling the integrated design of products and their underlying design processes in a systematic fashion are provided, motivating the extension of PLM to include the lifecycle considerations of design processes, thereby moving towards Design Process Lifecycle Management (DPLM).

Streamlining Product Lifecycle Processes: A Survey of Product Lifecycle Management Implementations, Directions, and Challenges

2005 ◽  
Vol 5 (3) ◽  
pp. 227-237 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ravi M. Rangan ◽  
Steve M. Rohde ◽  
Russell Peak ◽  
Bipin Chadha ◽  
Plamen Bliznakov
Keyword(s):  
Change Management ◽  
Data Exchange ◽  
Service Management ◽  
Systems Design ◽  
Product Lifecycle Management ◽  
Product Lifecycle ◽  
Research Issues ◽  
Product Data ◽  
Corporate Executives ◽  
Lifecycle Management

The past three decades have seen phenomenal growth in investments in the area of product lifecycle management (PLM) as companies exploit opportunities in streamlining product lifecycle processes, and fully harnessing their data assets. These processes span all product lifecycle phases from requirements definition, systems design/ analysis, and simulation, detailed design, manufacturing planning, production planning, quality management, customer support, in-service management, and end-of-life recycling. Initiatives ranging from process re-engineering, enterprise-level change management, standardization, globalization and the like have moved PLM processes to mission-critical enterprise systems. Product data representations that encapsulate semantics to support product data exchange and PLM collaboration processes have driven several standards organizations, vendor product development efforts, real-world PLM implementations, and research initiatives. However, the process and deployment dimensions have attracted little attention: The need to optimize organization processes rather than individual benefits poses challenging “culture change management” issues and have derailed many enterprise-scale PLM efforts. Drawn from the authors’ field experiences as PLM system integrators, business process consultants, corporate executives, vendors, and academicians, this paper explores the broad scope of PLM, with an added focus on the implementation and deployment of PLM beyond the development of technology. We review the historical evolution of engineering information management/PLM systems and processes, characterize PLM implementations and solution contexts, and discuss case studies from multiple industries. We conclude with a discussion of research issues motivated by improving PLM adoption in industry.

Methodological Integration of Parametric Associative CAD Systems in Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) Environment

2009 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vahid Salehi ◽  
Chris McMahon
Keyword(s):  
Design Process ◽  
Descriptive Study ◽  
Product Lifecycle Management ◽  
Clear Understanding ◽  
Full Potential ◽  
Design Phase ◽  
Product Lifecycle ◽  
Cad Systems ◽  
Main Challenge ◽  
Lifecycle Management

The automotive engineering process is characterized by a long and complex design process which starts with the first sketches in the preliminary design phase and extends to the final detailed CAD and physical models. Every design phase includes different process steps which are interconnected with each other. For a better handling of all created information in the different design stages there is a demand for capable Product Lifecycle Management systems (PLM). Furthermore, one of the important parts of PLM systems is the integration of the virtual product development process which can be based on parametric associative (PA) computer-aided design (CAD) systems. The main challenge is the full integration of all created PA CAD data with these kinds of system. To achieve the full potential of PA CAD systems, especially in view of the complexity of the CAD parts and assemblies, it is important to have a clear understanding of how best to use such systems. Accoring to Shah and Ma¨ntyla¨ [1] parametric systems solve constraints by applying sequentially assignment to model variables, where each assigned value is computed as a function of the previously assigned values. Related to design process associativity is the fix relationship and connection between geometrical entities and objects. These associative relationships include also the connection of 3D models and down stream process related elements. The focus of this paper is to present the results of a descriptive study which has been accomplished to identify the challenges, problems and weaknesses involved in the use of PA CAD systems in the automotive design process. After a short introduction the result of a literature survey is presented. The review is followed by presentation of the results of a questionnaire and interview study of engineers working in the automotive industry. This study demonstrates that engineers have significant difficulty in identifying and structuring the parameters and associative relationships used in PA CAD, especially in distributed design tasks. The review and the empirical study demonstrate the necessity of a generic integrated approach working with PA CAD systems. The results of this descriptive study will be used to support the methodological integration of the created CAD components in PLM environments.

scholarly journals Product Lifecycle Management with the Asset Administration Shell

Computers ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (7) ◽  
pp. 84
Author(s):  
Andreas Deuter ◽  
Sebastian Imort
Keyword(s):  
Data Model ◽  
Research Work ◽  
Idea Generation ◽  
Automatic Generation ◽  
Product Lifecycle Management ◽  
Product Lifecycle ◽  
Digital Representation ◽  
Holistic Concept ◽  
Standard Interface ◽  
Lifecycle Management

Product lifecycle management (PLM) as a holistic process encompasses the idea generation for a product, its conception, and its production, as well as its operating phase. Numerous tools and data models are used throughout this process. In recent years, industry and academia have developed integration concepts to realize efficient PLM across all domains and phases. However, the solutions available in practice need specific interfaces and tend to be vendor dependent. The Asset Administration Shell (AAS) aims to be a standardized digital representation of an asset (e.g., a product). In accordance with its objective, it has the potential to integrate all data generated during the PLM process into one data model and to provide a universally valid interface for all PLM phases. However, to date, there is no holistic concept that demonstrates this potential. The goal of this research work is to develop and validate such an AAS-based concept. This article demonstrates the application of the AAS in an order-controlled production process, including the semi-automatic generation of PLM-related AAS data. Furthermore, it discusses the potential of the AAS as a standard interface providing a smooth data integration throughout the PLM process.

scholarly journals Special Issue of the Manufacturing Engineering Society 2020 (SIMES-2020)

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (13) ◽  
pp. 5975
Author(s):  
Ana María Camacho ◽  
Eva María Rubio
Keyword(s):  
Applied Sciences ◽  
Modeling And Simulation ◽  
Industry 4.0 ◽  
Product Lifecycle Management ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Product Lifecycle ◽  
Manufacturing Automation ◽  
Engineering Society ◽  
Manufacturing Engineering ◽  
Lifecycle Management

The Special Issue of the Manufacturing Engineering Society 2020 (SIMES-2020) has been launched as a joint issue of the journals “Materials” and “Applied Sciences”. The 14 contributions published in this Special Issue of Applied Sciences present cutting-edge advances in the field of Manufacturing Engineering focusing on advances and innovations in manufacturing processes; additive manufacturing and 3D printing; manufacturing of new materials; Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) technologies; robotics, mechatronics and manufacturing automation; Industry 4.0; design, modeling and simulation in manufacturing engineering; manufacturing engineering and society; and production planning. Among them, the topic “Manufacturing engineering and society” collected the highest number of contributions (representing 22%), followed by the topics “Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) technologies”, “Industry 4.0”, and “Design, modeling and simulation in manufacturing engineering” (each at 14%). The rest of the topics represent the remaining 35% of the contributions.

Consistency Management System Between Product Design and the Lifecycle

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shinichi Fukushige ◽  
Yuki Matsuyama ◽  
Eisuke Kunii ◽  
Yasushi Umeda
Keyword(s):  
Manufacturing Industry ◽  
Product Lifecycle Management ◽  
Product Lifecycle ◽  
Consistency Management ◽  
Management Scheme ◽  
Data Architecture ◽  
Structure Geometry ◽  
Resource Circulation ◽  
Lifecycle Management ◽  
Lifecycle Design

Within the framework of sustainability in manufacturing industry, product lifecycle design is a key approach for constructing resource circulation systems of industrial products that drastically reduce environmental loads, resource consumption and waste generation. In such design, designers should consider both a product and its lifecycle from a holistic viewpoint, because the product’s structure, geometry, and other attributes are closely coupled with the characteristics of the lifecycle. Although product lifecycle management (PLM) systems integrate product data during its lifecycle into one data architecture, they do not focus on support for lifecycle design process. In other words, PLM does not provide explicit models for designing product lifecycles. This paper proposes an integrated model of a product and its lifecycle and a method for managing consistency between the two. For the consistency management, three levels of consistency (i.e., topological, geometric, and semantic) are defined. Based on this management scheme, the product lifecycle model allows designers to evaluate environmental, economic, and other performance of the designed lifecycle using lifecycle simulation.

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