Title: Feature and Product Markup Languages in service-oriented CAX collaboration

Authors: A. Khaled, Y-S. Ma, J. Miller

Addresses: Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, University of Alberta, AB T6G 2G8, Canada. ' Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Alberta, AB T6G 2G8, Canada. ' Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, University of Alberta, AB T6G 2G8, Canada

Abstract: The competitive and open market nature demands different vendors to collaborate during the product life cycle and to reduce the product|s time to market. In this paper, we propose an infrastructure to enable the concurrent collaboration of heterogeneous Computer Aided tools for concurrent engineering aspect X (CAX) at the feature level using a Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) approach. A Feature Markup Language (FML) and a Product Markup Language (PML) are proposed as the modelling and communication media for feature and product information representation and exchanges which can be independent to operating system and programming language. [Received 4 December 2008; Revised 9 July 2009; Accepted 20 July 2009]

Keywords: collaborative engineering; markup languages; PLM; product lifecycle management; concurrent engineering; simultaneous engineering; service oriented architecture; SOA; computer aided manufacturing; product information; feature information; modelling; communication.

DOI: 10.1504/IJMR.2010.029665

International Journal of Manufacturing Research, 2010 Vol.5 No.1, pp.87 - 101

Published online: 30 Nov 2009 *

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