Integrated Product and Process Management for Engineering Design Applications

Issue title: Integrated Product and Process Data Management

Guest editors: Dik L. LeeGuest Editor and Yuh-Min ChenGuest Editor

Article type: Research Article

Authors: Westfechtel, Bernhard

Affiliations: Lehrstuhl für Informatik III, RWTH Aachen, Ahornstr. 55, D-52074 Aachen, Germany

Abstract: SUKITS is a joint project of computer scientists and mechanical engineers which is devoted to the design and implementation of an integrated infrastructure for product development. This infrastructure—the CIM Manager—provides a framework for a posteriori integration of heterogeneous application systems. This paper describes management of engineering products and processes. Product management deals with configurations of interdependent, versioned documents such as designs, manufacturing plans, or NC programs. Management of engineering processes is tightly integrated with product management. A configuration of interdependent documents is interpreted as a net of communicating processes. Concurrent engineering is supported by exchanging pre releases of intermediate results.

DOI: 10.3233/ICA-1996-3103

Journal: Integrated Computer-Aided Engineering, vol. 3, no. 1, pp. 20-35, 1996