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

Frédéric Demoly, Xiu Yan, Benoît Eynard, Samuel Gomes, Dimitris Kiritsis

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Abstract

The paper describes a novel approach to product relationships management in the context of concurrent engineering and product lifecycle management (PLM). Current industrial practices in product data management and manufacturing process management systems require better efficiency, flexibility, and sensitivity in managing product information at various levels of abstraction throughout its lifecycle. The aim of the proposed work is to manage vital yet complex and inherent product relationship information to enable concurrent product design and assembly sequence planning. Indeed, the definition of the product with its assembly sequence requires the management and the understanding of the numerous product relationships, ensuring consistency between the product and its components. This main objective stresses the relational design paradigm by focusing on product relationships along its lifecycle. This paper gives the detailed description of the background and models which highlight the need for a more efficient PLM approach. The proposed theoretical approach is then described in detail. A separate paper will focus on the implementation of the proposed approach in a PLM-based application, and an in-depth case study to evaluate the implementation of the novel approach will also be given.
Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)544-561
Number of pages18
JournalJournal of Engineering Design
Volume23
Issue number7
Early online date24 Oct 2011
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2012

Keywords

  • concurrent engineering
  • assembly-oriented design
  • product relationships
  • relational design
  • product lifecycle management
  • integrated
  • product relationships
  • management
  • concurrent product design
  • assembly sequence planning

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