A holonic metamodel for product lifecycle management

Sergio Terzi (1) , Hervé Panetto (2) , Gérard Morel (2) , Marco Garetti (3)

1 DII - Dipartimento di Ingegneria industriale
2 CRAN - Centre de Recherche en Automatique de Nancy
3 DIG - Dipartimento di Ingegneria Gestionale

Product and production management have become complex processes where more problems are overlapping each other's, while product development might ever more take into account improved customers' tastes and requests in a shorter time-to-market. The product lifecycle and its related management (PLM) are becoming unavoidable key aspects, creating such a “product centric” problem. The integrated management of all the information regarding the product is one of the related questions. One of the main issues concerning with the product management in a wider perspective, deals with the traceability of the product itself. The present paper aims at discussing the question of product lifecycle management as a question of product traceability. An innovative approach, based on a holonic definition of the product and its lifecycle, is introduced. In particular, a reference metamodel of such holon-product is presented.

Mots clés: PLM; Holon; Metamodel; Standards; Traceability

Domaines: Ingénierie assistée par ordinateur

Sergio Terzi, Hervé Panetto, Gérard Morel, Marco Garetti. A holonic metamodel for product lifecycle management. International Journal of Product Lifecycle Management, 2007, 2 (3), pp.253-289. ⟨10.1504/IJPLM.2007.016292⟩. ⟨hal-00120019⟩