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2014 | OriginalPaper | Chapter
Towards an Enhancement of Relationships Browsing in Mature PLM Systems
Authors : Marianne Allanic, Thierry Brial, Alexandre Durupt, Marc Joliot, Philippe Boutinaud, Benoit Eynard
Published in: Product Lifecycle Management for a Global Market
Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
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Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) domain is at a key point in its development: its concepts and technologies are mature. PLM systems not only manage documents but information associated to a product along its lifecycle, such as Bills-Of-Material (BOM) or require- ments at different levels of granularity. All the dependencies between concepts lead to complex relationships from which it is not easy to get a coherent overview. The purpose of the paper is to know whether PLM systems are able to deal relationships complexity. Two case studies – one form manufacturing industry and the other one from a new application domain of PLM, Bio-Medical Imaging - are developed in the paper. They show that hierarchical browsing of existing PLM systems is not suitable to manage relationships complexity and must evolve to graph browsing.