Engineering objective-driven product lifecycle management with enhanced human control

Abstract

Great advances in information systems and computer hardware, software, and communication technologies in their background motivated the authors in a work for human intent based and human acceptable automation of product modeling. In an advanced virtual space called as model space, increasingly complex products are described by information for engineering objects. Current product modeling in comprehensive product lifecycle management (PLM) systems suffers from quick development generated problems. Huge amount of relationships makes current product models less transparent. Decisions are not explained by their background in product models so that they can not be understood at applications. In this paper, the authors propose a contribution to solve the above problems by establishment of an extension to current product modeling that can be accessed through standard API. They outlined the problem and background in management of product information and conceptualized human thinking driven definition of product entities. Following this an extension to classical product modeling is proposed towards intelligent content, for information content driven control of conventional model entity generation, and for implementation in industrial PLM systems. © 2009 Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg.