Open AccessApproach to structure management and customer-related configuration in the product lifecycle in mechanical engineering
Author(s) -
Alexander Stekolschik
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
iop conference series. materials science and engineering
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1757-899X
pISSN - 1757-8981
DOI - 10.1088/1757-899x/715/1/012108
Subject(s) - systems engineering , configuration management (itsm) , product lifecycle , computer science , product (mathematics) , product engineering , aerospace , concurrent engineering , manufacturing engineering , process (computing) , quality (philosophy) , new product development , process management , engineering , product design , process engineering , business , process integration , geometry , mathematics , marketing , operating system , aerospace engineering , philosophy , epistemology
Complexity in the product and production process in mechanical and aerospace engineering leads to the existence of a variety of structures like engineering and manufacturing bills of materials. The manual or partly automated creation of these structures leads to redundant data and quality issues. This paper describes the approach of an integrated structure management based on a reference structure. The development of an integrated reference structure management approach aims to enhance the quality of a product in combination with concurrent complexity reduction. The reference structure is customer- or order-neutral; it is utilized as a basis for other structures. This paper presents a software system-neutral approach for the customer-related configuration of this structure resulting in e- and mBOM. The implementation of the method framework (selection of use cases) in a standard product lifecycle management (PLM) system is part of the research.