Towards Virtual Confidence - Extended Product Lifecycle Management

Jan Oscarsson (1) , Manfred A. Jeusfeld (1) , Anders Jenefeldt (2)

1 University of Skövde [Sweden]
2 Volvo Cars Corporation

Product lifecycle management (PLM) systems maintain amongst others the specifications and designs of product, process and resource artefacts and thus serve as the basis for realizing the concept of Virtual Manufacturing, and play a vital role in shortening the leadtimes for the engineering processes. Design of new products requires numerous experiments and test-runs of new facilities that delays the product release and causes high costs if performed in the real world. Virtualization promises to reduce these costs by simulating the reality. However, the results of the simulation must predict the real results to be useful. This is called virtual confidence. We propose a knowledge base approach to capture and maintain the virtual confidence in simulation results. To do so, the provenance of results of real, experimental and simulated processes are recorded and linked via confirmation objects.

Mots clés: Virtual confidence; Simulation data management; Provenance; Ontology

Domaines: Informatique [cs]

Jan Oscarsson, Manfred A. Jeusfeld, Anders Jenefeldt. Towards Virtual Confidence - Extended Product Lifecycle Management. 12th IFIP International Conference on Product Lifecycle Management (PLM), Oct 2015, Doha, Qatar. pp.708-717, ⟨10.1007/978-3-319-33111-9_64⟩. ⟨hal-01377498⟩