Open this publication in new window or tab >>2022 (English)In: Journal of Industrial Information Integration, ISSN 2467-964X, E-ISSN 2452-414X, Vol. 28, article id 100369Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]
Virtual engineering increases the rate of and diversity of models being created; hence requires maintenance in a product lifecycle management (PLM) system. This also induces the need to understand their creation contexts, known as historical or provenance information, to reuse the models in other engineering projects. PLM systems are specifically designed to manage product- and production-related data. However, they are less capable of handling the knowledge about the contexts of the models without an appropriate extension. Therefore, this research proposes an extension to PLM systems by designing a new information model to contain virtual models, their related data and knowledge generated from them through various engineering activities so that they can be effectively used to manage historical information related to all these virtual factory artifacts. Such an information model is designed to support a new Virtual Engineering ontology for capturing and representing virtual models and engineering activities, tightly integrated with an extended provenance model based on the W7 model. In addition, this paper presents how an application prototype, called Manage-Links, has been implemented with these extended PLM concepts and then used in several virtual manufacturing activities in an automotive company.
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Elsevier, 2022
Keywords
Virtual model, Product Lifecycle Management, Information model, knowledge management, Ontology
National Category
Production Engineering, Human Work Science and Ergonomics Information Systems
Research subject
Production and Automation Engineering; Information Systems; VF-KDO
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:his:diva-21198 (URN)10.1016/j.jii.2022.100369 (DOI)000822941700006 ()2-s2.0-85136279404 (Scopus ID)
Funder
Knowledge Foundation, 20140330
Note
CC BY 4.0
Available online 2 June 2022, 100369
Corresponding author: Iman Morshedzadeh
This work was supported by the Knowledge Foundation (KKS) through the IPSI Research School at the University of Skövde [grant number 20140330], and VF-KDO Profile research project [grant number 20180011].
2022-06-022022-06-022024-06-19Bibliographically approved