A Unified Feature Modeling Scheme for Multi-applications in PLM

摘要

Currently, collaborations in Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) become a major trend. However, different product lifecycle phases are interrelated. Although collaborative product development approach has been suggested to find a balance among usually conflicted requirements of these phases, but very few in-depth research works have addressed the inherent sequential and iterative natures of the product development processes coherently. Due to the inter- or intra-phase relationships, a chain of changes is very likely to occur. Modeling and maintaining these relations are hence important in collaborative engineering to evolve the state of the whole system in a stable and consistent manner. This paper elaborates a feature-based, object-oriented and unified approach for the information sharing among multiple applications of PLM collaboration.