On Architecting and Implementing a Product Information Sharing Service

2008 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Vijay Srinivasan ◽  
Lutz Lämmer ◽  
Steven Vettermann
Keyword(s):  
Information Sharing ◽  
Service Oriented Architecture ◽  
Product Information ◽  
Product Lifecycle Management ◽  
Business Information ◽  
Recent Developments ◽  
Service Oriented ◽  
Open Standards ◽  
Use Of Internet ◽  
Lifecycle Management

Recent developments in information technology are influencing the field of engineering informatics in some profound ways. Nowhere is the influence more evident than in the use of Internet-based technologies and standards to share engineering and business information across a worldwide enterprise. In turn, the business need for collaboration among various players and partners in a globally integrated enterprise is driving the development and deployment of open standards, service-oriented architecture, and middleware. The convergence of these developments has provided us an opportunity to architect and implement a product information sharing service described in this paper. The architecture is service oriented and is based on the Object Management Group's PLM Services 1.0 specifications. It is implemented using IBM’s WebSphere Process Server middleware and PROSTEP’s OpenPDM software. This product information sharing service is one of the first industrial examples of a successful application of service-oriented architecture to product lifecycle management.

scholarly journals Into the Fold

2007 ◽  
Vol 129 (02) ◽  
pp. 36-38
Author(s):  
Jean Thilmany
Keyword(s):  
Service Oriented Architecture ◽  
Open Systems ◽  
Product Lifecycle Management ◽  
Enterprise Service Bus ◽  
Integration Framework ◽  
Business Applications ◽  
Service Oriented ◽  
End To End ◽  
Lifecycle Management ◽  
Plm System

This article focuses on the need for improvement in product lifecycle management (PLM) interoperation. PLM interoperation would allow companies to work with the best tools for its business and not be limited in communicating with customers and suppliers. PLM systems are getting a fresh look and one should expect to see more of the type now often called end-to-end open systems. The secret is the middleware, dubbed service-oriented architecture (SOA), which links all these applications in an interconnected web. IBM introduced plans for its Product Development Integration Framework, which will tie all business applications via SOA to create an end-to-end, open PLM system. The company is also marketing an enterprise service bus that can loosely couple its own business applications with other applications, which will then operate on the system. According to an expert, by linking research to engineering, Samsung’s products could hit the market quicker than if the two functions worked separately, and products could be designed in ways that had only just been conceptualized.

A Role of Enterprise Service Bus in Building Web Services

2017 ◽  
pp. 46-58
Author(s):  
Dinesh Sharma ◽  
Devendra Kumar Mishra
Keyword(s):  
Web Services ◽  
Business Processes ◽  
Service Oriented Architecture ◽  
Enterprise Service Bus ◽  
Fast Processing ◽  
Service Oriented ◽  
Open Standards ◽  
Or Organization ◽  
Services Use

Present is the era of fast processing industries or organization gives more emphasis for planning of business processes. This planning may differ from industry to industry. Service oriented architecture provides extensible and simple architecture for industry problem solutions. Web services are a standardized way for developing interoperable applications. Web services use open standards and protocols like http, xml and soap. This chapter provides a role of enterprise service bus in building web services.

Semi-Automated Lifecycles for Eliciting Requirements for Service-Oriented Environments

2013 ◽  
pp. 22-34
Author(s):  
M. Brian Blake
Keyword(s):  
Software Engineering ◽  
Requirements Engineering ◽  
Service Oriented Architecture ◽  
Future Application ◽  
Service Oriented Architectures ◽  
Requirements Specifications ◽  
Business Information ◽  
Service Oriented ◽  
Enterprise Modernization ◽  
Development Applications

Service-based tools are beginning to mature, but there is a cognitive gap between the understanding of what currently exists within an organization and how to use that knowledge in planning an overall enterprise modernization effort that realizes a service-oriented architecture. Traditional and contemporary software engineering lifecycles use incremental approaches to extract business information from stakeholders in developing features and constraints in a future application. In traditional environments, this information is captured as requirements specifications, use cases, or storyboards. Here, we address the evolution of traditional software engineering approaches to support the conceptualization of abstract services that overlap multiple organizations. Traditional software engineering lifecycles must be enhanced with emerging processes related to the development applications for service-oriented environments. The chapter discusses state-of-the-art approaches that elicit information about the requirements for service-oriented architectures. These approaches tend to leverage existing requirements engineering approaches to suggest aggregate service-based capabilities that might be most effective for a particular environment.

Metrics for Degree-of-Openness of Engineering Information: Recognizing the Value of Standards-Based PLM — Part 2

2005 ◽  
Author(s):  
Injoong Kim ◽  
Manas Bajaj ◽  
Nsikan Udoyen ◽  
Greg Mocko ◽  
Russell Peak ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Product Lifecycle Management ◽  
Circuit Board ◽  
Product Lifecycle ◽  
Design Information ◽  
Cad System ◽  
Engineering Information ◽  
Computer Based ◽  
Open Standards ◽  
Lifecycle Management ◽  
Current Engineering

Over a product lifecycle, many engineering tools are used to create computer-based models that need to interact. This poses interoperability problems because of the conflicting formats of the models and differing scopes of the tools. One proposed solution is an open standards-based product lifecycle management (PLM) framework. However, the use of open standards is hindered by the lack of knowledge regarding their actual and potential usage in current engineering processes. To overcome this hurdle and evaluate the opportunities and extent to which open standards can be used in such PLM frameworks, we develop three metrics for degree-of-openness of engineering information: compatibility, coverage, and completeness. To demonstrate the usefulness of the proposed metrics, we assess circuit board design information that is transferred between native models of an electronic CAD system and the STEP AP210 standard (ISO 10303-210). This preliminary experience shows that each of the three useful metrics provides a limited aspect of degree-of-openness, and the combination of these metrics provides a single more holistic degree-of-openness indicator.

Exploration of the Modeling Process of Assembly Based on MBD and Pro/ENGINEER

2013 ◽  
Vol 753-755 ◽  
pp. 880-883
Author(s):  
Li Xin Wang ◽  
Ming Yue Guo ◽  
Yu Guo
Keyword(s):  
Product Information ◽  
Three Dimensional ◽  
Product Lifecycle Management ◽  
Technical Requirement ◽  
Assembly Model ◽  
Bill Of Materials ◽  
Modeling Process ◽  
Assembly Drawing ◽  
3D Assembly ◽  
Lifecycle Management

The 3D (three dimensional) assembly model should provide all of the product information in order to realize pure 3D modeling in PLM(Product Lifecycle Management). This paper briefly introduces the development of MBD (Model-based Definition) at first, and then the overall information needed in 2D (two dimensional) assembly drawing is presented. At last, the overall needed information (dimensions, technical requirement, BOM(Bill of Materials)) is acted upon 3D assembly model successfully through the use of functions, for example, annotation, layer and view in Pro/ENGINEER.

Information sharing and exchange in the context of product lifecycle management: Role of standards

2008 ◽  
Vol 40 (7) ◽  
pp. 789-800 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sudarsan Rachuri ◽  
Eswaran Subrahmanian ◽  
Abdelaziz Bouras ◽  
Steven J. Fenves ◽  
Sebti Foufou ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Information Sharing ◽  
Product Lifecycle Management ◽  
Product Lifecycle ◽  
Lifecycle Management

Modeling an Enterprise Services Enabled Product Improvement Process for Military Vehicles

2008 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas R. Gulledge ◽  
Scott Hiroshige ◽  
Raj Iyer ◽  
Mattias Johansson ◽  
Jonas Rose´n
Keyword(s):  
Supply Chain ◽  
Transition Period ◽  
Product Lifecycle Management ◽  
Design Development ◽  
Military Vehicles ◽  
Computing Paradigm ◽  
Improvement Process ◽  
Service Oriented ◽  
Product Improvement ◽  
Lifecycle Management

The evolution of Enterprise Services is changing the approach for enabling Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) and Supply Chain Management (SCM). Enabling systems are migrating to process- and service-oriented solutions, requiring new approaches for architecting composite applications. This paper uses examples from our work to present the state-of-the art in architecting end-to-end solutions for delivering PLM and SCM capabilities from an Original Equipment Manufacturer (OEM) to the customer. The paper also demonstrates how emerging methodologies, methods, and tools are used to support the implementation of composite applications, as well as the limitations of working in a mixed legacy/modern environment during the lengthy transition period to the new service-oriented computing paradigm. The hypothesis of this paper is that design and supply chain integration is achievable through composite application design, development, and deployment. This paper discusses the design, development, and deployment of a composite application to address the product improvement process for military vehicles, and it lays the foundation for testing the hypothesis. Based on these initial analyses we conclude that the composite approach to PLM is not only feasible, but may provide the only practical solution (given current technologies) to a very complex supply chain information sharing problem.

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