Overview

Abstract

In Part III, we described a management system for mechanical engineering which provides integrated management of products, activities, and resources. Product management combines version control, configuration control, and consistency control into a uniform framework. Activity management is built on top of product management (product-centered approach) and takes various aspects of dynamics into account (product-dependent task nets, feedback, simultaneous engineering). Resource management covers both human and computer resources and provides for role-based task assignments and tool integration through wrappers, respectively. The management system was fully implemented, and it was successfully applied to non-trivial scenarios.