PLM is a strategic approach to managing information, processes and resources to support the lifecycle of products and services, from conception, development, market launch and recall. PLM is not only an IT platform, but rather an integrated approach, based on a set of technologies, collaborative work organization methodologies and process definition.
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Building a Factory Knowledge Base: Digitalization and Integration of Manufacturing Information
Giulia Bruno (Politecnico di Torino, Italy), Emiliano Traini (Politecnico di Torino, Italy), Alberto Faveto (Politecnico di Torino, Italy), and Franco Lombardi (Politecnico di Torino, Italy)
Copyright: © 2021
|Pages: 26
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-7998-5879-9.ch003
Abstract
In past decades, production has been characterized by the mass customization trend. This concept reaches its extreme with the one-of-a-kind production (OKP): every product is different for each customer. In order to develop unique product and complex processes in short time, it is mandatory to reuse the acquired information in the most efficient way. Several commercial software applications are already available for managing manufacturing information, such as product lifecycle management (PLM) and manufacturing execution system (MES), but they are not integrated. The aim of this chapter is to propose a framework able to structure and relate information from design and execution of processes, especially the ones related to anomalies and critical situations occurring at the shop floor, in order to reduce the time for finalizing a new product. To this aim, a central knowledge-based system (KBS), acting as integrator between PLM and MES, has been developed. The framework has been implemented with open source systems, and has been tested in a car prototyping company.