Aziz, Hayder, Gao, James ORCID: 0000-0001-5625-3654, Maropoulos, Paul and Cheung, Wai M. (2005) Open standard, open source and peer-to-peer tools and methods for collaborative product development. Computers in Industry, 56 (3). pp. 260-271. ISSN 0166-3615 (doi:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.compind.2004.12.002)

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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
Uncontrolled Keywords:	PLM; Knowledge management; Peer-to-peer; STEP; Collaborative product development
Subjects:	T Technology > TA Engineering (General). Civil engineering (General)
Faculty / School / Research Centre / Research Group:	Faculty of Engineering & Science Faculty of Engineering & Science > Engineering Design in Practice Faculty of Engineering & Science > School of Engineering (ENG)
Last Modified:	18 Sep 2020 23:36
URI:	http://gala.gre.ac.uk/id/eprint/17781

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