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A feature-based approach to integrate product and process architectures |
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Author(s): |
Jörg Feldhusen, Frederik Bungert, Nils Macke, Manuel Löwer |
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Chair and Institute for Engineering Design IKT, RWTH Aachen University, Steinbachstrabe 54B, 52074 Aachen, Germany
feldhusen @ ikt.rwth-aachen.de, bungert @ ikt.rwth-aachen.de, macke @ ikt.rwth-aachen.de, loewer @ ikt.rwth-aachen.de |
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PLM-SP3 - 2007 Proceedings pp. 457 - 466 |
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This contribution describes a feature-based reference model which integrates product and process architectures. A reference model is an abstract, commonly valid model from which an application model describing a certain scenario can be derived. To integrate the product architecture, which comprises the product and the functional structure, and a process architecture, which comprises the process and the organisational structure, a hierarchical feature structure will be applied. This approach aims at making as much product related knowledge reusable as possible. In general, only the data connected to the product structure can be reused as other knowledge is only of implicit character. This knowledge can be turned into explicit using the mentioned feature-based approach. It will be embedded into a reference model to ensure that only common knowledge is incorporated. Product specific knowledge which cannot be reused will be discarded. |
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