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Development of an authoring framework for the simplified customization of PDM systems

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Given that the amount of product data in firms is explosively increasing, a PDM system for effective data management is considered indispensable for product development. However, considerable time and specialized human resources are needed to customize a generic PDM system for satisfying the specific requirements of individual firms. To overcome this problem, we propose the use of UML object models in a PDM authoring framework. A PDM authoring framework, which provides authoring functions for the effective customization of PDM systems, will reduce the need for the intervention of PDM specialists in the design of the object models of the PDM system. We describe how a PDM authoring framework may be designed by using UML object models, and show how model-oriented application development (MOAD), in conjunction with the PDM authoring framework, can be used to build object models into a PDM system. Furthermore, we confirm the value of the framework by evaluating its performance under several conditions.

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  1. Department of Mechanical Engineering Carnegie Mellon University, 5000 Forbes Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA, 15213, USA

    In-Ho Song

  2. Division of Industrial & Information Systems Engineering Ajou University, San 5, Wonchun-dong, Yeongtong-gu, Suwon, 443-749, Korea

    Jeongsam Yang & Beom Park

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This paper was recommended for publication in revised form by Associate Editor Dae-Eun Kim

Inho Song is a postdoctoral associate in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University, USA. He received the Ph.D. degree in Mechanical Engineering from Hanyang University, Seoul, Korea in 2007. From 2002 to 2007, he served as a CAx team leader of the INOPS Company (CIES R&D Center), Seoul, Korea. He has developed the sketch-based CAD system for an automotive company. His research interests include collaborative design, sketch-based CAD, geometry translation, geometry compression, product data exchange, PDM/PLM, digital manufacturing, and virtual reality.

Jeongsam Yang is an assistant professor in the Department of Industrial & Information Systems Engineering and is leading the CAD laboratory(http://cadlab.kaist.ac.kr) at Ajou University. He worked at Clausthal University of Technology (Germany) as a visiting researcher and the University of Wisconsin-Madison (USA) as a postdoctoral associate. He obtained his Ph.D. in mechanical engineering in 2004 at KAIST. His current research interests are product data quality (PDQ), VR application in product design, product data management (PDM), knowledge-based design system, and STEP.

Peom Park is a professor in the Department of Industrial & Information Systems Engineering and is leading the Human Technology Research Center and Human Factors/HCI laboratory (http://hci.ajou.ac.kr) at Ajou University. He worked on HCI and Telecommunication system at ETRI as a senior researcher. He obtained his Ph.D. in Industrial and Manufacturing Systems Engineering at Iowa State University on 1992. His current research interests are uT applications, u-Healthcare/Telemedicine, Telematics and Ergonomic/Safety Design.

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Song, IH., Yang, J. & Park, B. Development of an authoring framework for the simplified customization of PDM systems. J Mech Sci Technol 22, 2180–2189 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12206-008-0716-y

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