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Proceedings of the International Conference on
Product Lifecycle Management PLM'09
Supporting the extended enterprise
PLM-SP5, 2009 |
(from Chapter 2: Collaborative Product Development)
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New interface management tools and strategies for complex products |
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Author(s): |
Keyvan Rahmani, Vincent Thomson |
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Department of Mechanical Engineering, McGill University, Montreal, Canada
keyvan.rahmani @ mail.mcgill.ca, vincent.thomson @ mcgill.ca |
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Reference: |
PLM-SP5 - 2009 Proceedings pp. 84 - 94 |
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Abstract/
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In this paper, an interface management model for multidisciplinary products is proposed with the aim of improving communication between design groups with respect to product data. Using a functional representation of products is suggested to have well defined subsystems. When the product structure is designed, the interfaces between its subsystems can be defined using the systematic methodology proposed in this paper. Having a systematic methodology to define interfaces is the first step towards standardizing them. With well-defined interfaces, the number of incompatible design decisions can be reduced. This will reduce new product development time and facilitate subsystem changes. The paper also shows a formal way of modeling interface objects with the purpose of integrating them into product lifecycle management (PLM) software. Interfaces are modeled using object oriented technology since this parallels the object nature of product data and since object technology provides a formalism to integrate interface data into PLM software. |
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