Automobile, aerospace, and other industrial manufacturers have evolved over the years to use a multitude of computer-aided design (CAD) and product data management (PDM) systems and have long depended on single-vendor solutions to support their enterprise-wide engineering activities. Increased product complexity, distributed authoring environments, and the need for tighter team integration with partners and suppliers have created challenges and new opportunities for information technology (IT) vendors to be able to integrate systems from multiple independent software vendors (ISVs) to form a coherent Enterprise PDM system. This paper will describe, in detail, a case study and solution of an IBM Research project called Hedwig. Hedwig investigates creating robust solutions for Product Life-Cycle Management (PLM). We focus on several research issues, including information federation, data mapping, synchronization, and web services connections. We describe a working system that allows access to several heterogeneous PDM systems that are used in the automotive and aerospace industries.
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Information Integration Framework For Product Life-Cycle Management of Diverse Data
Sai Zeng
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Huong Morris
Simon Lee
Eric Shan
Sai Zeng
Contributed by the Engineering Informatics (EIX) Committee for publication in the JOURNAL OF COMPUTING AND INFORMATION SCIENCE IN ENGINEERING. Manuscript received May 1, 2004; Revised September 21, 2004. Associate Editor: R. Rangan.
J. Comput. Inf. Sci. Eng. Dec 2004, 4(4): 352-358 (7 pages)
Published Online: January 4, 2005
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Received:
May 1, 2004
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September 21, 2004
Online:
January 4, 2005
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Morris, H., Lee, S., Shan, E., and Zeng, S. (January 4, 2005). "Information Integration Framework For Product Life-Cycle Management of Diverse Data." ASME. J. Comput. Inf. Sci. Eng. December 2004; 4(4): 352–358. https://doi.org/10.1115/1.1818684
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