Tiered services approach for improvement of business processes flexibility in PLM systems
Résumé
Companies collaborating to develop new products need to implement an effective management of their design processes. Unfortunately, PLM systems, dedicated to support design activities are not efficient as it might be expected. Design processes are changing, emergent and non deterministic whereas PLM systems based on workflow technology don't support process flexibility. The aim of this paper is to present an analysis of existing approaches and perspectives which deal with business process (BP) flexibility. From this analysis, we propose an approach for improving PLM systems flexibility based on services technology. Unlike existing approaches, the proposed one deal with a service-oriented perspectives rather than an activity-oriented one.