Proceedings of the International Conference on
Product Lifecycle Management    PLM'05
Emerging solutions and challenges for Global Networked Enterprise

PLM-SP1, 2005
 
(from Chapter 1: Ontologies and information models)

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Title: The Product Avatar as a Product-Instance-Centric Information Management Concept
  Author(s): Karl A. Hribernik, Lutz Rabe, Jens Schumacher, Klaus-Dieter Thoben
  Address: BIBA - Bremen Institute of Industrial Technology and Applied Work Science at the University of Bremen Hochschulring 20 28359 Bremen Germany
BIBA - Bremen Institute of Industrial Technology and Applied Work Science at the University of Bremen Hochschulring 20, 28359 Bremen, Germany BIBA - Bremen Institute of Industrial Technology and Applied Work Science at the University of Bremen Hochschulring 20, 28359 Bremen, Germany
BIBA - Bremen Institute of Industrial Technology and Applied Work Science at the University of Bremen Hochschulring 20, 28359 Bremen, Germany
BIBA - Bremen Institute of Industrial Technology and Applied Work Science at the University of Bremen Hochschulring 20, 28359 Bremen, Germany
rab @ biba.uni-bremen.de
  Reference: PLM-SP1, 2005  pp. 10 - 20
  Abstract/
Summary
This paper presents the concept of semi-autonomous product-centric information management based on the Product Avatar concept, discussing the overall concept of distributed and decentralised information management relevant to individual product items and analyses the requirements the concept generates. In that context, it aims at stimulating discussion on the pragmatic utilisation of emerging technologies, such as Radio Frequency Identification (RFID), wireless networking and ubiquitous computing. This paper further illustrates the benefits of the application of the Product Avatar concept in examples related to Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) against a scenario based on a network of organisations connected to the maintenance, repair and operation processes of a product.
 
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