A solution for actors' viewpoints representation with collaborative product development

Hichem Geryville (1, 2) , Abdelaziz Bouras (1) , Yacine Ouzrout (1) , Nikolaos Sapidis (2)

1 LIESP - Laboratoire d'Informatique pour l'Entreprise et les Systèmes de Production
2 Department of Product and Systems Design Engineering

As product complexity and marketing competition increase, a collaborative product development is necessary for companies which develop high quality products in short lead-times. To support product actors from different fields, disciplines, and locations, wishing to exchange and share information, the representation of the actors' viewpoints is the underlying requirement of the collaborative product development. The actors' viewpoints approach was designed to provide an organisational framework following the actors' perspectives in the collaboration, and their relationships, could be explicitly gathered and formatted. The approach acknowledges the inevitability of multiple integration of product information as different views, promotes gathering of actors' interests, and encourages retrieved adequate information while providing support for integration through PLM and/or SCM collaboration. In this paper, a solution for neutral viewpoints representation is proposed. The product, process, and organisation information models are seriatim discussed. A series of issues referring to the viewpoints representation are discussed in detail. Based on XML standard, taking cyclone vessel as an example, an application case of part of product information modelling is stated.

Mots clés: Viewpoints; multidisciplinary collaboration; exchange information; product and process information; product lifecycle management (PLM)

Domaines: Interface homme-machine [cs.HC]; Architectures Matérielles [cs.AR]; Autre [cs.OH]

Hichem Geryville, Abdelaziz Bouras, Yacine Ouzrout, Nikolaos Sapidis. A solution for actors' viewpoints representation with collaborative product development. International Technical Conference Product Life cycle and Engineering Design Management - Virtual Concept 2006, 2007, Cancùn, Mexico. pp.39-40, ⟨10.1007/978-2-287-48370-7⟩. ⟨hal-00153093⟩