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CALS, under its new acronym Continuous Acquisition and Life-Cycle Support, is defined as “an Industry and government strategy intended to enable more effective generation exchange, management and use of digital data supporting the life cycle of a product, through the use of international standards, business process change and advanced technology applications “. This paper deals with the topic of Data Exchange needed during all the phases of the Acquisition Process of a complex product such as a system implying numerous participants. The design and construction of a space station, for example, tests the limits of our ability to coordinate the decisions and actions of subcontractors with a bureaucracy.
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CALS, avec son nouvel acronyme “acquisition continue et soutien d’un cycle de vie “, est défini comme “une stratégie industrielle et gouvernementale orientée vers l’amélioration d’échanges générateurs de la gestion et l’utilisation des données digitales qui sous-tendent le cycle de vie d’un produit, à l’aide de standards internationaux, le changement des processus propres aux affaires et d’utilisation de techniques avancées”. Cet article traite du sujet de l’échange de données nécessaires durant toutes les phases du processus d’acquisition d’un “produit complexe” tel qu’un système impliquant de nombreux participants. La conception et la constitution d’une station spatiale, par exemple, permet de tester les limites de notre aptitude à coordonner les décisions et les actions des sous-contractants à l’aide d’une “bureaucratie”.
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Pistenon, R.J. (1996). The CALS Initiative: A Global Model for Distributed Data Acquisition. In: Dubois, JE., Gershon, N. (eds) Industrial Information and Design Issues. Data and Knowledge in a Changing World. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-80286-7_20
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