Integrated product relationships management: a model to enable concurrent product design and assembly sequence planning

Abstract

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Product relationships management enabler for concurrent engineering and product lifecycle management

“…As 299 such and according to the aforementioned PASODE steps, PROMA 300 will manage the information propagation through design and 301 manufacturing data structures (i.e. eBOM, CADBOM and mBOM) by 302 using the Bill Of Relations (BOR) concept [11]. In order to facilitate 303 understanding, this paper only describes and focuses on the 304 relationships identified between product design and assembly 305 sequence planning phases as an example of lifecycle activity to 306 illustrate the PROMA philosophy.…”

“…This becomes a barrier for 28 applying an efficient concurrent engineering philosophy in BOL 29 and remains a huge challenge to be tackled [9,10]. 30 Previous work argued that companies required efficient concur-31 rent engineering (CE) [12] and PLM strategies [11] in order to 32 maintain their business competitive edge. One particular industrial 33 requirement is the need for concurrent considerations of lifecycle 34 issues for different life aspects into the early product design process 35 [13][14][15].…”

“…To overcome 39 these difficulties, this paper proposed a Product design Engineering 40 based on Generative Assembly SeqUenceS planning (PEGASUS) 41 application and it is aimed to bring the potential benefits of CE into 42 this integrated and concurrent product design and assembly 43 sequence planning (ASP) stages. 44 Using previous research results related to assembly oriented 45 design (AOD) and PLM issues [18], the paper presents the 46 implementation of an approach, which aims to reveal the 47 relationships among product parts and operations as well, and 48 maximize the usage of these relationships whilst maintaining 49 information consistency [19] and seamless flow between product 50 design and ASP phases [11]. 51…”

“…309 4. Implementation of PROMA in a PLM hub application 310 Based on this additional description of PROMA approach [11], 311 its relevance and feasibility need to be demonstrated. As such, a 312 PLM hub application (PEGASUS) as prototype application is 313 introduced to manage information flows and provide internal 314 regulation procedures between design and assembly planning 315 stages.…”

“…Past research efforts have led to successful design 22 for X (DFX) and knowledge-based techniques in product design 23 in order to integrate all constraints of each life phases (i.e. 24 manufacturing, assembly, disassembly and recycling) [7,8], but 25 some gaps still exist in the management of the various technical 26 entities and the control of information/decision/rationale flow 27 through the product lifecycle [11]. This becomes a barrier for 28 applying an efficient concurrent engineering philosophy in BOL 29 and remains a huge challenge to be tackled [9,10].…”