Proceedings of the International Conference on
Product Lifecycle Management    PLM'07
Assessing the industrial relevance

PLM-SP3, 2007
 
(from Chapter 1: Organizational issues)

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Title: Supporting collaboration in product design through PLM system customization
  Author(s): Guillaume Pol, Christophe Merlo, Jeremy Legardeur, Graham Jared
  Address: ESTIA/LIPSI, Technopole Izarbel, 64210 Bidart, France
ESTIA/LIPSI, Technopole Izarbel, 64210 Bidart, France
ESTIA/LIPSI, Technopole Izarbel, 64210 Bidart, France
SIMS, Cranfield University,Cranfield, Bedfordshire, MK43 OAL, UK
g.pol @ estia.fr, c.merlo @ estia.fr, j.legardeur @ estia.fr, g.jared @ cranfield.ac.uk
  Reference: PLM-SP3 - 2007 Proceedings  pp. 21 - 30
  Abstract/
Summary
This paper deals with the proposal of a framework for coordinating design process through a PLM (Product Lifecycle Management) system. Design coordination implies that project managers are able to structure their project, assign resources and define the schedule of the resulting tasks with specific objectives and performance criteria. In Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) the design process is generally described at a macro-level which does not fully correspond to the complexity of the real process. To improve design coordination in SMEs a method for analyzing informal collaborative practices is introduced in order to help modeling detailed but flexible design processes. Then these processes are implemented by using PLM technologies: multi-level workflows are implemented to control document workflows through synchronization tasks.
 
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