MDA Based Tool for PLM’ Models Building and Evolving

Abstract

Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) systems are sufficiently generic to propose models adapted to companies' specific needs without additional development. However, the implementation of such systems and their multiple reconfigurations may introduce coherence problems. To ensure structural and functional coherence while creating and evolving PLM models, a methodological approach is described in this paper. The proposed approach is based on Model Driven Architecture (MDA) principles in order to allow : [1] models' creation while respecting syntactic and semantic constraints, [2] models' evolution while respecting dependencies between the various PLM syste' components. This approach is being prototyping based on Eclipse framework.