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Title: |
Development of Formal Ontology for Product Design Lifecycle |
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Author(s): |
Mini P Kesavadas, Amit Paygude, Karthik Bandi, T. Kesavadas |
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Lateral Eye Inc.
Clarence, NY 14032
USA
Lateral Eye Inc.
Clarence, NY 14032
USA
Lateral Eye Inc.
Clarence, NY 14032
USA
University at Buffalo
Buffalo, NY 14260
USA
minipk @ lateraleye.com, apaygude @ lateraleye.com, karthik @ lateraleye.com, kesh @ buffalo.edu |
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Reference: |
PLM-SP1, 2005 pp. 3 - 9 |
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Abstract/
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Product Lifecycle Management, in theory, allows companies to integrate various activities associated with product development, starting from market needs to, design and development of products to maintenance of products to retiring a product when the product no longer meets the need for which it was designed. However today there is a surprising lack of agreement on formal definitions about what constitutes these various steps and how these changes during the course of time. Our approach to this problem is through applying the concepts of ontological engineering. In this paper, we propose a formal basic ontology that is sufficiently generic to encompass the semantics, relationships and constraints of design artifacts to encapsulate design and manufacturing intent and rationale. Our approach will significantly reduce the problem of interoperability in downstream product development and sharing of manufacturing knowledge, effect of design on quality etc from system integrators through its’ value chain. We will also introduce a new tool called PrOnto ™, under development at Lateral Eye that helps in building the proposed formal ontology of the product life cycle. |
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