Chapter 1: Early Stage Issues

Title: Multi-view model for contextual configuration management in PLM applications

Author(s): Souheïl Zina, Muriel Lombard, Luc Lossent

Address: Centre de Recherche en Automatique de Nancy - UMR 7039 Université Henri Poincaré, Nancy I Faculté des Sciences - B.P. 239 54 506 Vandoeuvre-lès-Nancy, France LASCOM Burospace - Antélia 4, Route de Gisy 91 571 Bièvres Cedex, France | Centre de Recherche en Automatique de Nancy - UMR 7039 Université Henri Poincaré, Nancy I Faculté des Sciences - B.P. 239 54 506 Vandoeuvre-lès-Nancy, France | Centre de Recherche en Automatique de Nancy - UMR 7039 Université Henri Poincaré, Nancy I Faculté des Sciences - B.P. 239 54 506 Vandoeuvre-lès-Nancy, France

Reference: International Conference on Product Lifecycle Management 2006 pp. 53 - 62

Abstract/Summary: PLM (Product Lifecycle Management) is often described as a set of features and procedures that help to manage product data defining at the same time the products and processes implemented for development. The implementation of PLM systems remains a difficult and time consuming task. The issues faced by both editors and integrators arise from the specific aspect of customers' projects, even tough most functional needs are often generic. In this paper, we shall focus more particularly on configuration management that traces product evolutions throughout its lifecycle, we will put forward the links between the configuration modeling needs and the multi-view approach models. In addition, we will present the context notion. A context notion allows customization of points of view on configurations models so as to assist the PLM Solution designers or integrators in the particularization of views for the final user.

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