H. Geryville, A. Bouras, Y. Ouzrout, N. Sapidis Lumière University of Lyon, France

An architecture of product information exchange:

transformation and adaptation of the knowledge within supply chain

context

H. Geryville, A. Bouras, Y. Ouzrout, N. SapidisH. Geryville, A. Bouras, Y. Ouzrout, N. Sapidis

Lumière University of Lyon, FranceLumière University of Lyon, France

University of the Aegean, GreeceUniversity of the Aegean, Greece

[email protected] [email protected]

Lyon, May 11, 2006 Cerral/Prisma Laboratory2

LOGOPlan

1.Introduction

2.Research context & Thesis problematic

3.Thesis objectives

4.Proposed methodologya. The Product-Process-Collaboration-Organisation

Model

b. The multiple viewpoints approach

c. The exchange information protocol

d. The global architecture

5.Example

6.Conclusion


LOGOIntroduction

La complémentarité scientifique de ces deux laboratoires a orienté nos travaux de thèse dans le domaine de la gestion du cycle de vie des informations liées aux produits industriels (via leurs échange/partage entre acteurs) selon deux objectifs:

• Analyse et classification des information liées aux produits et aux processus suivis dans une orientation PLM/SCM.

• Formalisation d’un modèle adapté à l’échange et au partage d’informations tout au long du cycle de vie d’un produit, il intègre aussi un sous-modèle représentatif de points de vue des collaborateurs ajusté à l’extraction, à la transformation et à l’adaptation des informations/connaissances d’un acteur à l’autre.


LOGOResearch Context and the Problematic

Product design and development have become complicated processes where more problems are overlapping each other’s.

Product development might ever more take into account improved customers’ tastes and requests in a shorter time-to-market.

The integration of product lifecycle and supply chain and their related management are becoming unavoidable key aspects, creating such as a “switcher” information problem.


LOGOResearch Context and the Problematic

Enterprises have to focus on their core competences in order to improve the efficiencies and to reduce the inefficiencies → Multidisciplinary collaboration.

The multidisciplinary collaboration between different actors depends on exchanging and sharing adequate information on the product, related processes and business throughout the product’s lifecycle.

The effective capture of information, and also its extraction, recording, exchange, sharing, and reuse become increasingly critical, especially when one considers the collaborators’ points of view.


LOGOObjectives

This work is focusing on integration of product, process, collaboration and supply chain organization modeling in a collaborative framework.

…To improve the definition of the product development model.

…To increase the quality of the exchanged information by using “multiple viewpoints” approach, especially to capture the actors’ interest on the product and process information.

…To facilitate transformation/adaptation of knowledge/information from one actor to another, following his/her viewpoints on product (objective and focus)


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1. Product-Process-Collaboration-Organization Model (PPCO)

2. Multiple viewpoints approach

3. Communication protocol

Proposed methodology


LOGOThe PPCO Model

In multidisciplinary collaboration oriented PLM/SCM, we need to define a general core model which includes the information on the product (geometry design, manufacturing data, managing data, etc.), on the processes, on the collaboration, and on the structure of the supply chain organization. This model is inspired from the PPO of Graza [Gzara 03] and IPPOP [IPPOP 2004, Rose 04].

Our first objective on proposing the PPCO model is to provide a base-level information model which is open, non-proprietary, generic, extensible, and independent of any product development process and a generic collaboration within supply chain context, able to capture the whole engineering and business context.

This model is composed of four main parts interconnected directly or indirectly (by using viewpoints approach) such, product, process, collaboration, and organization.


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Schema

Meta-data of product lifecycle data

Content-data of product lifecycle

–Specific vocabulary for product lifecycle data & supply chain data

–Meta-data for product lifecycle dataoMeta-data of Product, Process, Collaboration, and Organisation (PPCO)oMeta-data of interaction among PPCO

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Characteristics

Organization

Collaboration

Process

Product

BOL MOL EOL Chronological Order

Changeability

Dynamic

Static

The PPCO Model


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Product: the product structure is defined not only by the decomposition of the complete product into elemental components, but also by the interactions between these components. The interactions may include well-specified interfaces and undesired or incidental interactions.

Process: the product development process is generally a complex procedure involving information exchange across the many activities/tasks in order to execute the work. Various network-based methods have been used to map and study development processes.

Organization: the organization structure determines who works with whom and who reports to whom. However, in development organizations we are particularly interested to study the communication patterns of the actors conducting the technical development work.

The PPCO Model


LOGOThe PPCO Model: the product model


LOGOThe PPCO Model: the product model


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LOGOthe organization & collaboration modelsThe PPCO Model:


LOGOThe PPCO Model: global view


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EnterpriseEnterprise

ComputationComputation

InformationInformation

TechnologyTechnology

EngineeringEngineering

Hard- and software componentsThat implement the system

Mechanisms and services for distribution

transparencies

Information, changes,

constraints

Business aspects

who? why?

Configuration of objects

interacting at interfaces

Multiple viewpoints approach


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In ODP viewpoint model, we are interesting on the enterprise and information viewpoints, are respectively with organizational requirements and information modeling.

From these two kinds of viewpoints, we can say that the viewpoints framework provides an infrastructure for capturing and organizing product information extraction within multidisciplinary collaboration.

In multidisciplinary collaboration context, the human dimension is important and corresponds to the different actors in a PL phasis, the related knowledge dimension corresponds to the experience, competence and situation of the actor.

Multiple viewpints approach


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Most of the authors agree that a viewpoint is strongly influenced by the actor’s domain. Factors such as the field of experience and specific technical interest play a role in this representation. Several actors see the product information differently according to the specific constraints to their discipline.

Based on definition of Garlan [Garlan 87] and Easterbrook [Easterbrook 93], we define viewpoint as a subset of information concerning the product/process respecting the actor’s focuses. This definition is characterized by a context, which allows the restitution of the information that the actor want to use/retrieve, and a degree of importance/reuse he wants to give to this viewpoint.



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In our case, the viewpoint permits:• Simple seek of information of product/process

within a supply chain context,• Visualization of pieces of information according

to a given process/activity,• Comparison of information between viewpoints.



LOGOMultiple viewpints approach




LOGOCommunication protocol

We propose a typology of exchanged messages to communicate and information exchange between actors. To define the messages’ structure, we studied and compared several business frameworks. We noticed that it exist three categories of frameworks:

1. Cross-industry frameworks provide cross industry vocabularies but are limited to the rough process approach and are not greatly concerned with messaging (e.g. xCBL, OAGIS).

2. Specific-industry frameworks give industry-specific vocabularies. However, their main contribution is in business processes, as papiNet (www.papinet.org) and RosettaNet (www.rosettanet.org) which provide a comprehensive description of business processes in a particular industry by applying the detailed process approach.



3. Process-centric frameworks provide no vocabularies but focus on business processes taking the generic process approach (e.g. ebXML, BPML).

In our case, we integrate the OAGIS, papiNet and RosettaNet messages to create a standard XML messages exchange following the business process.


LOGOThe full architecture


LOGOScenario 1: Supply Chain with externalization of DesignExample:








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Number Quantity Part Number Product Description

1 1 MF1647B-FWE CP Vessel Body, 316L Stainless Steel

2 1 MF1647A-FWE CP Vessel Cover, 316L Stainless Steel with Lifting Eye

3 1 MF1645C-FWEGASKET, 1/8" [3mm] Thick Custom Cut for 10" [250mm]150# ANSI Flange, Gylon Blue 3504

6 C1091-55-0.077Cyclone, CP1, 316L SS Castings, Machined and Welded,0.188 [5mm] APEX ID, 0.077 SQ IN [50mm SQ] INLET,0.281" [7mm] Vortex Finder ID

4 8 C7090G-RV-D Gasket, 75 Durometer Viton

5 8 C7265-1-SS Washer, 316 Stainless Steel

6 2 C9411-SS Cyclone Blank, Machined from Billet, CP1, 316 SS

7 16 C7090G-RV-E Gasket, 75 Durometer Viton

8 8 C1762-1-5Z4 Bushing, Non Threaded, Machined 316L Stainless Steel

9 1 MF1647D-FWECP Vessel Capture Plate, 316L Stainless Steel, for 8 ModelCP1 CP Vessel

10 5 STD-0H13UC02ZGZStud, 1/2-13UNC x 2" Long, 316 Stainless Steel, A193-B8MMaterial

11 12 STD-0N09UC05ZGZStud, 7/8-9UNC x 5" Long, 316 Stainless Steel, A193-B8MMaterial

12 1 C4026-C8-0.375 Apex TIP, C8 96% Aluminia Ceramic, 0.375in [9.5mm] ID

13 1 C6019G-RN Gasket, 60 Durometer Viton

14 1 C1331-SSCentering Ring, 304 Stainless Steel, for CA026 APEXAssembly

15 1 C7715-SS Clamp, 316 Stainless Steel

16 24 NUT-0N09UOHH2HZNut, 7/8-9UNC x 5" Long, 316 Stainless Steel, A194-8M,with Bearing Surface

17 5 NUT-0H13UC02ZHZNut, 1/2-13UNC x 2" Long, 316 Stainless Steel, A194-8M,with bearing Surface

18 2 9F-PLUG-0.25-SS Pipe PLUG, 1/4" NPT, 316 SS

Bill of Material: C1091-SS-0.077

Number Quantity Part Number Product Description

19 1 C1075-SSCyclone Body, CPA Cyclone Body, S16L SS Casting,Machined for Welding

20 1 C1077-SS-0.188APEX, CP1 Cyclone Lower APES Section, 316L Casting,Machined for Welding, 0.188 [4mm] APEX Hold Diameter

21 1 C1071-SS-0.077Cyclone Head, CP1 Cyclone Head, 316L SS Casting,Machined for Welding, 0.077 SQ IN [50mm SQ] INLET,0.281" [7mm] ID Vortex Finder

Scenario 1: Supply Chain with externalization of DesignExample:


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Viewpoints

a. Product structure

c. Development of the supply-chain organization

b. Process development

Scenario 1: Supply Chain with externalization of DesignExample:








LOGOConclusion

The proposed framework is based on four layers and instead to capture, exchange, share and reuse information within supply chain context.

The viewpoints approach was integrated to capture the actors’ interest on their collaboration over the product lifecycle, and to optimize the exchange.

With the integration of the both proposition, the system particularly will be ensure:• The integration and consolidation of information

coming various sources, and its filtering, transformation and adaptation to various viewpoints.

• Optimization of time restitution.• Information traceability.


LOGOPerspectives

Integration of the ontology definition in the prototype.

Add a definition of the information traceability from the creation to it using by the actors.

Validate the full prototype with a new PLM/SCM scenario.


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LOGOReferences (2/2)

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