Chapter 9: Middle and end of life issues

Title: Life cycle analysis using product semantic model for reliability and maintainability assessment

Author(s): Amadou Coulibaly, Mickaël Gardoni, Roland Maranzana

Address: LGECO : Laboratoire du Génie de la Conception, (INSA Strasbourg) 24, Bd de la Victoire 67084 STRASBOURG, France | LGECO : Laboratoire du Génie de la Conception, (INSA Strasbourg) 24, Bd de la Victoire 67084 STRASBOURG, France | ETS, Montréal (Canada)

Reference: International Conference on Product Lifecycle Management 2007 pp. 617 - 626

Abstract/Summary: Product Life Cycle Design is a global design approach aimed to take into account the different factors that may influence the product technical performance and business competitivity Xue (1998). This approach attempts to bring solutions to enhance classical CAD systems that are mainly geometry and topology oriented. This evolution is due to the need to validate the product functionalities and to take care of the impact of the design solutions on the product behaviour with respect to the different criteria like maintainability, reliability. Such criteria are semantically specified and there evaluation evolves the use of approaches that can provide indicators at the early stage in the design process. In this paper we present a product design framework that supports product information along the lifecycle design process. After the introduction, we give in section two a general description of the Product Lifecycle and related data. In section three, we propose the Lifecycle Design Framework using a PLM system for recording reliability field data. In section four, we outline a Lifecycle Analysis procedure using a PLM system for updating reliability field data and maintenance documentation. In section five, an application is sketched for maintenance documentation customization from a generic one.

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