An approach for building product models by reuse of patterns

摘要

This paper deals with an approach for Product Information Systems (PIS) engineering by reuse of patterns. The pattern approach provide an engineering guide to model data by organizing hierarchically and functionally modeling problems and the manner to resolve them. This would contribute to accelerate building and implementing product and process models during PIS engineering. A special interest is given to identify and specify different patterns for product modeling. However, a pattern-based approach can be developed only for disciplines which acquired a certain maturity, i.e. those for which there is both a consensus around a finite set of problems and a variety of known solutions for solving these problems. There is no universal agreement on the knowledge needed in product information systems, let alone on the representation of this knowledge. The first step consisted thus of a field analysis providing a common terminology and a semantic of the principal concepts managed in PIS and proposing various models to fix these concepts. It forms a basis for exploring the problems frequently occurring during PIS specification. A pattern catalogue is then defined to resolve the identified problems.