Currently, the challenge of implementing a product data management system (PDMS) is how to ensure system integration and product data exchange is shared between heterogeneous syste...
We present a formal specification and verification approach for industrial product data bases containing Boolean logic formulae to express constraints. Within this framework, globa...
The protocols selected and developed by the NIIIP Consortium have been validated in three end-of-cycle demonstrations. In each cycle, a team with expertise in technical product da...
Martin Hardwick, K. C. Morris, David L. Spooner, T...
Long-term users of engineering product data are hampered by the ephemeral nature of CAD file formats and the applications that work with them. STEP, the Standard for the Exchange ...
We present our consistency support tool BIS, an extension to the electronic product data management system (EPDMS) used at DaimlerChrysler AG to configure the Mercedes lines of pa...
: This paper describes using agents in the exchange of industrial product data when predefined translators are not available. A major problem with standard translators is that a se...
: Product data, information and knowledge are the core ICT resources for collaborative design. This paper describes five different approaches to exchanging and sharing product data...
Product data exchange is the precondition of business interoperation between Web-based firms. However, millions of small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) encode their Web produ...
Product data integration is an essential issue for many e-commerce interoperable business systems. Core to this issue is how to maintain semantic consistency between heterogeneous...
In terms of electronic collaboration, the value chains of the retail and consumer goods industries can be ranked among the most advanced. Recent studies have underlined the import...