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Product to process lifecycle management in assembly automation systems
conference contribution
posted on 2012-01-11, 13:59 authored by Izhar Ul Haq, Tariq Masood, Bilal Ahmad, Robert Harrison, Baqar Raza, Radmehr P. MonfaredPresently, the automotive industry is facing enormous pressure due to global competition and ever
changing legislative, economic and customer demands. Product and process development in the
automotive manufacturing industry is a challenging task for many reasons. Current product life
cycle management (PLM) systems tend to be product-focussed. Though, information about
processes and resources are there but mostly linked to the product. Process is an important aspect,
especially in assembly automation systems that link products to their manufacturing resources. This
paper presents a process-centric approach to improve PLM systems in large-scale manufacturing
companies, especially in the powertrain sector of the automotive industry. The idea is to integrate
the information related to key engineering chains i.e. products, processes and resources based upon
PLM philosophy and shift the trend of product-focussed lifecycle management to process-focussed
lifecycle management, the outcome of which is the Product, Process and Resource Lifecycle
Management not PLM only.
History
School
- Mechanical, Electrical and Manufacturing Engineering
Citation
HAQ, I.U. ... et al, 2011. Product to process lifecycle management in assembly automation systems. Presented at the 7th International Conference on Digital Enterprise Technology, 28th-30th September 2011, Athens.Publisher
Laboratory for Manufacturing Systems and Automation (LMS)Version
- AM (Accepted Manuscript)
Publication date
2011Notes
This is a conference paper.Language
- en