Open Standard, Open Source and Peer to Peer tools and methods for collaborative product development

Aziz, Hayder, Gao, James, Maropoulos, Paul and Cheung, Wai Ming (2005) Open Standard, Open Source and Peer to Peer tools and methods for collaborative product development. Computers in Industry, 56. pp. 260-271. ISSN 0166-3615

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Abstract

This paper reports on a collaborative product development and knowledge management platform for small to medium enterprises. It has been recognised that current product lifecycle management (PLM) implementations are document oriented, have a non-customisable data model and inter-enterprise integration difficulties. To overcome these, an ontological knowledge management methodology utilising the semantic web initiative data formats was added to a PLM and an open source alternative. Shortcomings of centralised architectures are highlighted and a solution using a de-centralised architecture proposed. This is implementable at low cost; the scalability increases in line with user numbers. Ontologies, rules and workflows are reusable and extendable.

Item Type:	Article
Subjects:	H100 General Engineering H700 Production and Manufacturing Engineering
Department:	Faculties > Engineering and Environment > Mechanical and Construction Engineering
Depositing User:	Wai Ming Cheung
Date Deposited:	07 Feb 2018 11:28
Last Modified:	11 Oct 2019 22:03
URI:	http://nrl.northumbria.ac.uk/id/eprint/33201

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