Chapter 10: Interoperability

Title: Semantic tags for generative multiview product breakdown

Author(s): Thomas Paviot, Vincent Cheutet, Samir Lamouri

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Reference: International Conference on Product Lifecycle Management 2010 pp. 532 - 541

Abstract/Summary: The interoperability of IT systems that drive engineering and production processes (i.e., product data management and enterprise resource planning systems) is still an issue. The semantic meaning of product information has to be explicit in order to be able to exchange information between these systems. However, the product breakdown activity generates many disconnected product views over which the product semantics is disseminated and mostly implicit. This paper introduces a methodology which allows describing an explicit product semantics independently from its components. It is based upon the concept of tag coming from the semantic and collaborative web. The transposition of this concept to the domain of product development requires a new concept enabling to generate any view according to the business viewpoint: the semantic group.

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