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.

Study the on Time Delivery Based on Product Lifecycle Management in Supply Chain

2013 ◽  
Vol 397-400 ◽  
pp. 2581-2588
Author(s):  
Hong Chen
Keyword(s):  
Supply Chain ◽  
New Product ◽  
Product Lifecycle Management ◽  
Operation Management ◽  
Product Lifecycle ◽  
Chain Management ◽  
Design And Manufacturing ◽  
Lifecycle Management ◽  
Production And Operation ◽  
On Time Delivery

The current business competition happens among supply chains instead of the companies. In order to close the gap between product design and the production to obtain the competitive advantage, the New Product Pilot Run is proposed to be added into the Product Lifecycle Management from the perspective of the production and operation management in Supply Chain Management. The demonstration shows the benefits of this improved Product Lifecycle Management are to close the gap between Design and Manufacturing and are helpful to on time delivery new product successfully to market.

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.

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 The PACTUM model: Product analysis of cost and time using mathematics

2014 ◽  
Vol 05 (supp01) ◽  
pp. 1441004
Author(s):  
Daniel J. Easters
Keyword(s):  
Supply Chain ◽  
Product Lifecycle Management ◽  
Global Supply Chain ◽  
Chain Model ◽  
Model Structure ◽  
Product Analysis ◽  
Development Activity ◽  
Supply Chain Model ◽  
Research Findings ◽  
Lifecycle Management

Establishing a mathematical supply-chain model is a proposition that has received attention due to its inherent benefits of evolving global supply-chain efficiencies. This paper discusses the prevailing relationships found within apparel supply-chain environments, and contemplates the complex issues indicated for constituting a mathematical model. Principal results identified within the data suggest, that the multifarious nature of global supply-chain activities require a degree of simplification in order to fully dilate the necessary factors which affect, each subsection of the chain. Subsequently, the research findings allowed the division of supply-chain components into subsections, which amassed a coherent method of product development activity. Concurrently, the supply-chain model was found to allow systematic mathematical formulae analysis, of cost and time, within the multiple contexts of each subsection encountered. The paper indicates the supply-chain model structure, the mathematics, and considers how product analysis of cost and time can improve the comprehension of product lifecycle management.

Open Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) for Cloud Manufacturing and Cloud-Based Maintenance Integration Using XML

2018 ◽  
pp. 270-307
Author(s):  
Norman Gwangwava
Keyword(s):  
Cloud Computing ◽  
Life Cycle ◽  
Cloud Manufacturing ◽  
Product Lifecycle Management ◽  
Product Lifecycle ◽  
Product Data ◽  
Product Life ◽  
Main Driver ◽  
Service Oriented ◽  
Lifecycle Management

Product lifecycle management (PLM) is concerned with managing all the processes of product transition from cradle to the grave. Phases of a product life are inception, engineering design, manufacture, service, and disposal. A product passes through different systems, organisations, and users as it completes the life cycle. Global markets of today have increased the complex nature of a product path. All the life cycle phases rely upon product data for efficient management. In order to ease the strain of managing products throughout the lifecycle, a common product data schema is needed. Currently many platforms for product design use different proprietary schemas that make it difficult to have smooth lifecycle management. The chapter illustrates applications of an open source, XML-based schema for product lifecycle management. The main focus is on the inclusion of the Cloud in order to have new generation cloud product life cycle management (CPLM). The main driver of CPLM is cloud-model-based systems engineering (CMBSE). Within the framework of CMBSE are cloud-based design (CBD), cloud manufacturing (CM), and cloud-based maintenance (CBM). The three subsystems of CMBSE can be combined to form a single term, cloud-based design, manufacturing, and maintenance (CBDMM). Cloud computing, manufacturing, and maintenance are not new concepts, but many enterprises have not yet embraced them because of lack of complete seamless integration across various levels and processes in the product life. Many systems are still being run in silos of automation. CPLM is a service-oriented (SOA) model comprised of a pool of technologies such as cloud computing (CC), IoT, virtualization, and service-oriented technologies to support collaboration, sharing, and management across PLM phases.

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