F2008-10-016
Product Information Exchanges and Integrated Managements for Automotive Supply Network
Product Information Exchanges and Integrated Managements for Automotive Supply Network
Nowadays, most manufacturing industries are in confronted by rapidly changing of market requirements and tremendous pressure of technology developments. As the product development requires shorter lead-time and faster response to the market demand, closed communication and collaboration is required. In traditional way of engineering, each system is usually operated in isolated environment, and efficient communication with each other is very hard to achieve. This causes waste of investment on the hardware, software, human resources, and also causes inefficiency in the product development and production. PLM(Product Lifecycle Management) and new IT(Information Technology) are very useful to solve these problems. PLM is one of innovative manufacturing paradigms which leverage e-business technologies to allow a company´s product content to be developed and integrated with all company business process through the extended enterprise. For the successful achievement to PLM, the management, creation, collaboration of all product and manufacturing related information is essential, and the exchange of product information is core part of PLM business process. This paper proposes the methodology and prototype system for product information exchanges and integrated managements in automotive supply network. This approach architected by using ooCBD(object oriented component-based development) methodology which can analyze from the use case model to implementation test. Then, we defined the BOM(Bill of Material) neutral file that using XML(eXtensible Markup Language) refer to PLM Services. PLM Services is articulate the PLM data model schema to exchange product information. Finally, we implemented the module to support data exchange between commercial PDM(Product Data Management) systems of diverse suppliers. In this paper, object PDM Systems are Teamcenter Engineering and SmarTeam. Using this product information exchanges and integrated management in engineering collaboration portal and suggested neutral file for BOM, many engineers in supply network can share their information and knowledge in a fast and convenient way.