Collaboration based on product lifecycles interoperability for extended enterprise

Abstract

The paper proposes a new approach for managing two products lifecycles in the context of collaboration between aircraft OEM and their equipment suppliers. The concept of entities and specific roles are used to improve the semantic interoperability between both aircraft and equipment projects' data. These concepts are also used to formalize the relation between various processes that guarantee the connection between the aircraft and the assembly equipment lifecycles. The aim of this integration approach is to enable the information sharing between OEM and suppliers. It intends to enlarge the role of suppliers in the development process of fixture equipment, which are used in the aircraft assembly process.

Product life cycle management approach for integration of engineering design and life cycle engineering

“…PLM implementation: The last step of the method is to define appropriate architecture and technology implementation to support the integration of the existing systems and new tools in the context of the new life cycle. PLM for integration of engineering design and life cycle engineering Tools may be owned by distributed partners, and each of them handles data using their own format for information representation (Belkadi et al, 2010). Requirements for the platform have to take into account the need of easy reconfiguration and its use in context of extended enterprise (Ross et al, 2006), and an easy integration of existing systems and tools as well as new tools needed to improve current practices.…”

“…Therefore, information exchange has to be redefined taking into account all the tools in the new life cycle and their coordination (information flow sequence). PLM implementation: The last step of the method is to define appropriate architecture and technology implementation to support the integration of the existing systems and new tools in the context of the new life cycle. Tools may be owned by distributed partners, and each of them handles data using their own format for information representation (Belkadi et al, 2010). Requirements for the platform have to take into account the need of easy reconfiguration and its use in context of extended enterprise (Ross et al, 2006), and an easy integration of existing systems and tools as well as new tools needed to improve current practices. This method enables designers to connect most of the design tools and to integrate environmental impact evaluation into the design process.…”

A knowledge-based workflow to dynamically manage human interaction in extended enterprise

“…They act in a distributed, heterogeneous and dynamic environment to achieve a common goal. As a consequence, a renewal of the expected shared competences and new governance modalities for the relationships occurred over the supply-chain become imperative [7]. -Human-computer interaction that refers to the interaction between team members and the computer-based interactive systems used to support collaborative work, to manage knowledge sharing about the design process and the design content, to control all process activities and role playing, etc.…”

KBRE: a proposition of a reverse engineering process by a KBE system

“…In this tool, a PLM (Product Lifecycle Management) will be integrated in order to manage multi-expertises [29].…”