Chapter 5: Interoperability and Security Issues

Title: System Architecture for Design and EoL Information Integration Framework

Author(s): Hui Mien Lee, Wen Feng Lu, Bin Song, Robert Gay

Address: Singapore Institute of Manufacturing Technology 71 Nanyang Drive Singapore 638075 | Department of Mechanical Engineering National University of Singapore 9, Engineering Drive Singapore 117576 | Singapore Institute of Manufacturing Technology 71 Nanyang Drive Singapore 638075 | School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering Nanyang Technological University, 50 Nanyang Drive Singapore 639798

Reference: International Conference on Product Lifecycle Management 2008 pp. 393 - 402

Abstract/Summary: End-of-Life (EoL) research is emerging in the recent years to improve the environmental sustainability of products in the product lifecycle management. One of the most important areas is design for EoL where the designers need to consider the EoL of the product during design stage. To be effective, enabling systems and tools are needed to facilitate the execution of design for EoL. A Design and End-of-Life Information Integration framework (DELII) has been proposed earlier. In this paper, system architecture for the implementation of this DELII framework is presented. The DELII framework is a framework designed to manage information feedback from EoL to Design for an effective PLM. This system architecture consists of four layers; namely main layers; namely backend repository, middleware component, application components and user interface. It leverages on the semantic web services and ontology capability to provide standardized nomenclature over a distributed environment for the enhancement of information sharing and communications. A use case is also presented to illustrate the working of the system architecture.

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