Multiple viewpoint modelling framework enabling integrated product–process design

Abstract

Nowadays, companies have to cope with numerous constraints at organisational and technical levels in order to improve their competitiveness edges such as productivity, efficiency, and flexibility. Integrated product-process design becomes more and more complex to manage because of increasingly customized products related to various stakeholders and concerns geographically distributed. It is still represents a huge challenge, especially in the early phases of product development process. In such a context, the management of information within integrated product-process design highlights needs in a consistent engineering model that enables product lifecycle management (PLM) integration. The paper presents a novel multiple viewpoint framework called multiple viewpoint assembly oriented, considering product design and assembly process domains in the broader context of concurrent engineering and PLM. The proposed framework describes the consistency, the propagation of information change, and mechanisms of views generation among the product lifecycle stages in order to support assembly oriented design philosophy. A new modelling language called System Modeling Language is used to describe the proposed model from a systems engineering point of view. The implementation of the model in a Webservice called PEGASUS as an application for PLM systems is described.

Multiple views system to support awareness for cooperative design

“…This system uses two or more distinct views to support the investigation of a single object from different perspectives or levels of detail [15]. In information system of manufacturing enterprises, multiple views system creates mapping relationship between user's information needs and permission [16][17][18][19] according to a specific access control model, and hereby determines contents of views for different users. This system not only satisfies information safety [20] and sharing needs of enterprises, but also plays a significant role in human recognition.…”

Integrated product relationships management: a model to enable concurrent product design and assembly sequence planning

“…This approach also enables the system to maintain the traceability of product-process information flow during the product development process. The next paragraph describes a multiple view model considered as a basis for the PASODE framework (Demoly et al 2010b).…”

“…Focusing on the relationship entity, the MUVOA model has been proposed and it describes entities and their related associations which are handled in the PASODE framework (Demoly et al 2010b). The main objective of the model is to map concepts and related data structures in order to be used in an integrated and proactive manner.…”

“…In addition, this model highlights the complexity of relationships among different stakeholders and multiple viewpoints Downloaded by [Univ Technologie Belfort Montbeliard] at 08:36 24 October 2011 Figure 4. UML class diagram describing the MUVOA model (Demoly et al 2010b to which a similar complex multi-perspective views was identified in (Yan 2003). It is essential and important to have a full representation of these relationships (both in contextual view in product domain and assembly domain).…”

“…Section 3 introduces the background of the proposed research by describing an integrated framework entitled Proactive ASsembly-Oriented DEsign (PASODE) (Demoly 2010) based on multiple views model called MUltiple Views Assembly Oriented (MUVOA) (Demoly et al 2010b), in which an assembly sequence can be defined starting from part-to-part relationships and used for the definition of a skeleton-based assembly context in the preliminary product design process. In such a context, the last section (Section 4) introduces the proposed approach called Product RelatiOnships Management Approach (PROMA) to manage product relationships consistently, supporting the proposed framework PASODE and multiple views model MUVOA in the context of integrated product-process design and PLM.…”