Article in Proceedings INPROC-2012-28

BibliographySilcher, Stefan; Dinkelmann, Max; Minguez, Jorge; Mitschang, Bernhard: A Service-based Integration for an improved Product Lifecycle Management.
In: Leszek Maciaszek, Alfredo Cuzzocrea and José Cordeiro (ed.): Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems.
University of Stuttgart, Faculty of Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, and Information Technology.
pp. 38-47, english.
Wrocław, Poland: INSTICC Press, June 2012.
ISBN: 978-989-8565-10-5.
Article in Proceedings (Conference Paper).
Corporation14th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems (ICEIS 2012)
CR-SchemaD.2.11 (Software Engineering Software Architectures)
D.2.13 (Software Engineering Reusable Software)
KeywordsProduct Lifecycle Management; Service-oriented Architecture; Modular IT Integration
Abstract

The continuously changing environment is nowadays a major challenge for companies. The tough competition, growing customization of products and environmental regulations forces companies to continuously adapt their business processes. In order to manage the complexity and reduce the effort for developing products and production, many IT systems are indispensable. Despite Product Lifecycle Management Technology (PLM) the growing heterogeneous IT landscapes lack of a continuous support for business processes and get quickly unmanageable. In this paper PLM technology is extended by a service-based integration approach. Therefore, a modular service-based architecture was developed which will be presented in detail. The architecture describes how the whole product life cycle can be integrated more efficiently. The characteristics and findings of our approach are presented as well as a first prototype covering the production planning.

Department(s)University of Stuttgart, Institute of Parallel and Distributed Systems, Applications of Parallel and Distributed Systems
Entry dateJuly 10, 2012
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