Chapter 8: PLM Justification and Implementation

Title: A function-driven method for product lifecycle management

Author(s): Julien Le Duigou, Alain Bernard, Nicolas Perry, Jean-Charles Delplace

Address: IRCCyN, Ecole Centrale de Nantes, 1, rue de la Noë, BP 92 101, 44321 Nantes Cedex 03, France and Centre Technique de l’Industrie Mécanique, 57, av. Félix Louat, BP 80067, 60304 Senlis Cedex, France | IRCCyN, Ecole Centrale de Nantes, 1, rue de la Noë, BP 92 101, 44321 Nantes Cedex 03, France | LGM2B, Université de Bordeaux 1, 15, rue Naudet, CS 10207, 33175 Gradignan Cedex, France | CEntre Technique de l’Industrie Mécanique, 57, av. Félix Louat, BP 80067, 60304 Senlis Cedex, France

Reference: International Conference on Product Lifecycle Management 2009 pp. 381 - 391

Abstract/Summary: The management of product information on the product lifecycle is a strategic issue for industry. Our proposition is a function-driven framework to create and manage product information. Based on a function behaviour structure approach, the method proposes to each person involved in the product lifecycle to contribute, from a functional point of view, to the quotation, the development or the industrialisation of the product. For each phase of the product lifecycle, the extraction, capitalisation and reuse of fundamental knowledge is coordinated by a generic meta-model. This paper will explain this approach through an experiment on a company that manufactures ship equipment parts.

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