Framework of the evolution in virtual product modelling and model management towards digitized engineering
Year: 2017
Editor: Anja Maier, Stanko Škec, Harrison Kim, Michael Kokkolaras, Josef Oehmen, Georges Fadel, Filippo Salustri, Mike Van der Loos
Author: Bitzer, Michael; Eigner, Martin; Faißt, Karl-Gerhard; Muggeo, Christian; Eickhoff, Thomas
Series: ICED
Institution: 1: Accenture, Germany; 2: Technische Universität Kaiserslautern, Germany
Section: Design Information and Knowledge
Page(s): 345-354
ISBN: 978-1-904670-94-0
ISSN: 2220-4342
Abstract
Manufacturing industries typically have a strong history and focus on development and production of physical products as their strategic core competence. However, today due to more and more software within mechatronic products one can recognize a rethinking towards interdisciplinary product development. Further, in many areas of manufacturing industries the pure product-oriented focus shifts to the stakeholder (customer) needs. Those two aspects drive the need to describe the physical product not only by geometry and properties, but also by its structure and behavior, as well as to interpret and predict the product and its behavior. This paper is a concept paper to discuss the evolution of virtual product modelling and model management in order to determine potential areas of future research and discussion. Previous and ongoing research work and projects are referenced and brought in context. Moreover, a framework is introduced which helps to position previous, ongoing and future research work as well as industry concepts. Further, it provides boundaries of future steps of evolution in the field of virtual product modelling and model management towards "Digitized Engineering".
Keywords: Product Lifecycle Management (PLM), Systems Engineering (SE), Digital / Digitised engineering value chains, Digitised engineering, System Lifecycle Management (SysLM)