Search

This paper presents possible new business practices that are being created by the PROMISE technologies (PROduct lifecycle Management and Information tracking using Smart Embedded systems). The aim is to facilitate and exploit the seamless flow, tracing, and updating of information about a product in all lifecycle phases, and thereby to enable feedback from post-sales phases to the design phase. Basis for this complete lifecycle management are product embedded information devices (PEIDs) and software tools for decision making and management of product-related knowledge based on field data gathered through a product's lifecycle. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In the closed-loop product lifecycle management (PLM) which allows all lifecycle actors of the whole product lifecycle to access, manage, and control product related information with emerging technologies such as radio frequency identification (RFID) and wireless communication, it is prerequisite to share and exchange the product lifecycle data and information among lifecycle actors, smart products, and a PLM system. To this end, common semantics for product lifecycle meta data are required. In this regard, the ontology model for product lifecycle meta data can play a major role in supporting the sharing of product lifecycle data and information during whole product lifecycle. It can facilitate the communication among lifecycle actors, smart products, and a PLM system. For this purpose, in this study, we propose a primitive ontology model for product lifecycle meta data in the closed-loop PLM. For this, first, we clarify what the product lifecycle data is. We then design the structure of meta data that describes contents of product lifecycle data. Subsequently, we build up a primitive ontology for product lifecycle meta data in resource description framework (RDF) and have discussion about pros and cons of the proposed model. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]