The PPO design model with respect to digital enterprise technologies among product life cycle

Abstract

The product–process–organization model, PPO, provides efficient assistance to collaboration during innovative design project. This model is dedicated to the development phase of new products for which product architecture is indeed not a priori defined and tasks will be set dynamically during the product development process. In an integrated design perspective, product behaviours must also be forecasted; that is achieved by assessing PPO behaviours. This paper presents the PPO model and the open IPPOP framework that instantiates this model. It investigates how such a model with such a digital platform may interact with other services used to assist other phases of the product life cycle.

Keywords:

• Model driven approach
• Meta model
• Collaborative design
• Product
• Process
• Organization
• Product life management, Information flow
• Digital enterprise technology

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Notes on contributors

F. Noël

Both authors are part of the VRL-KCIP European network of excellence