Chapter 11: Promise

Title: Assessment of item-specific information management approaches in the area of heavy load vehicles

Author(s): Cecile Corcelle, Kary Främling, Lutz Rabe, Jürgen Anke, Jouni Petrow

Address: Caterpillar, CATERPILLAR France S.A.S, 40, Av Leon Blum, BP 55, 38041 GRENOBLE Cédex 9, FRANCECrawler | Helsinki University of Technology, PL 5500, FI-02015 TKK, Finland | Bremen Institute of Industrial Technology and Applied Work Science, Hochschulring 20, 28359 Bremen, Germany | SAP AG, SAP Research CEC Dresden, Chemnitzer Str. 48, 01187 Dresden, Germany | Trackway, Salomonkatu 17, 00100 Helsinki, Finland

Reference: International Conference on Product Lifecycle Management 2007 pp. 773 - 782

Abstract/Summary: Product lifecycle management (PLM) is often considered an interorganisational issue, where only organisations produce product information. This view fails to take into account the products themselves as information providers, which occurs mainly during the product's usage phase. The required item-specific information management infrastructure may be a challenge for traditional information systems. In this paper, we study how different approaches of centralized versus distributed information management are suitable for item-specific information management. A real-life PLM application is used for deriving generic assessment criteria. These criteria are then used for assessing the different approaches against the specific application. The results of the paper are the following: 1) a description of different approaches for implementing item-specific information management and 2) a set of assessment criteria for evaluating the approaches and 3) an example assessment for a specific PLM application.

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