Framework for Long Term Information Management of Product Configurations

摘要

Product configuration is an information intensive task for creating validcomponent combinations or descriptions from specifications. Information included in the process consists of product models, component models, actual partially or fully specified configurations, plus information of the configuration process itself. The authors start by describing the requirements for a configuration management system for a world-wide industrial enterprise. They then present a data model for a configuration environment where multiple partners take part in the process.