From a Monolithic PLM Landscape to a Federated Domain and Data Mesh

DS 116: Proceedings of the DESIGN2022 17th International Design Conference

Year: 2022
Editor: Mario Štorga, Stanko Škec, Tomislav Martinec, Dorian Marjanović
Author: Yousef Hooshmand (1), Jens Resch (1), Patrick Wischnewski (2), Prashant Patil (3)
Series: DESIGN
Institution: 1: Mercedes-Benz AG, Germany; 2: PROSTEP AG, Germany; 3: HCL Technologies Germany GmbH, Germany
Section: Design Information and Knowledge
Page(s): 713-722
DOI number: https://doi.org/10.1017/pds.2022.73
ISSN: 2732-527X (Online)

Abstract

Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) is one of the most business-critical IT backbones of manufacturing companies. It often consists of numerous, rigidly interwoven monolithic applications and is seen as synonymous with costly maintenance, lack of extensibility, and poor scalability. This paper proposes an approach for transforming a monolithic PLM landscape into a federated Domain and Data Mesh. This enhances semantic interoperability and enables data-driven use cases by treating data as first-class citizens. User-centric PLM domains moreover help to increase productivity in the workplace.

Keywords: product lifecycle management (PLM), semantic modelling, software engineering, data mesh, domain-driven design