Print Email Facebook Twitter An Application of the IPROD Software Framework to Support the Product Development Process in the Automotive and Aerospace Domain Title An Application of the IPROD Software Framework to Support the Product Development Process in the Automotive and Aerospace Domain Author Hoogreef, M.F.M. Van Dijk, R.E.C. La Rocca, G. d'Ippolito, R. Faculty Aerospace Engineering Department Aerodynamics, Wind Energy & Propulsion Date 2014-12-31 Abstract The Product Development Process (PDP) of manufacturing companies requires the efficient management of huge amounts of data from different sources and their integration in the sub-processes that compose the product development chain. This is a very challenging endeavor for which an integrated approach does not yet exist. The EC FP7 Project iProd aims at filling this void, by developing a flexible and service-oriented software framework, supported by a knowledge base that is structured by means of ontologies, to improve the efficiency and the quality of the PDP in the preliminary design phase. This paper discusses the first prototype of this software framework. The logic, overall software architecture and some of the implementations details of the framework are described. The functionalities of the software framework are demonstrated by means of two use-cases from two different domains, i.e. the automotive domain, represented by the development process of a car door, and the aerospace domain, represented by the development process of a rudder for a business jet. Preliminary testing, using the first prototype, indicates that the application of the framework to the two use-cases can yield benefits in terms of a reduction in development time in the preliminary design phase and results in product quality improvements, by having additional time for more design iterations to increase the maturity level during this phase. However, the framework is to be improved in terms of reliability, efficiency and maintainability. These improvements will be done during the development of two more software prototypes. Subject capturing product informationknowledge engineeringknowledge managementindustrial workflow enhancementontologiesknowledge-based technologies to support the product development process To reference this document use: http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:57e2bef2-18bc-4014-8e34-c10d66c6a40a Publisher TMCE ISBN 9789461861771 Source Proceedings of the 10th international symposium on Tools and Methods of Competitive Engineering TMCE 2014, Budapest, Hungary, May 19-23, 2014. Part of collection Institutional Repository Document type conference paper Rights (c) 2014 The Authors Files PDF 311864.pdf 1.74 MB Close viewer /islandora/object/uuid:57e2bef2-18bc-4014-8e34-c10d66c6a40a/datastream/OBJ/view