Publications related to Product data management

Gaia Focused Product Release: Sources from Service Interface Function image analysis Half a million new sources in omega Centauri

Context.Gaia's readout window strategy is challenged by very dense fields in the sky. Therefore, in addition to standard Gaia observations, full Sky Mapper (SM) images were recorded for nine selected regions in the sky. A new software pipeline exploits the ...

Edp Sciences S A2023

Semantic Model-Driven PLM Data Interoperability: An Application for Aircraft Ground Functional Testing with Eco-Design Criteria

Dimitrios Kyritsis, Damiano Nunzio Arena

The latest developments in Model-Based Systems Engineering (MBSE) and Product Life-Cycle Management (PLM) are playing a role in the evolution of the aeronautical industry. Despite the reluctance of this domain to accept the introduction of technology leaps ...

SPRINGER INTERNATIONAL PUBLISHING AG2019

Smart Factory Information Service Bus (SIBUS) for manufacturing application: requirement, architecture and implementation

Ian Anthony Stroud, Jumyung Um

The Smart Factory is an important topic worldwide as a means for achieving Industry 4.0 in the manufacturing domain. Contemporary research on the Smart Factory has been concerned with application of the so-called Internet of Things (IoT) to the shop floor. ...

2019

Dynamic Product Portfolio Management with Life Cycle Considerations

Ralf Seifert, Jean-Sébastien Tancrez, Isik Bicer

We consider a portfolio of products in which each product probabilistically transitions through various life cycle stages. The evolution through these life cycle stages is impacted by both marketing support and product launch decisions, which are bound by ...

2016

Closed-Loop Lifecycle Management of Service and Product in the Internet of Things: Semantic Framework for Knowledge Integration

Dimitrios Kyritsis, Min-Jung Yoo

This paper describes our conceptual framework of closed-loop lifecycle information sharing for product-service in the Internet of Things (IoT). The framework is based on the ontology model of product-service and a type of IoT message standard, Open Messagi ...

Mdpi Ag2016

Semantic model for IoT-enabled electric vehicle services: Puzzling with ontologies

Dimitrios Kyritsis, Min-Jung Yoo, Prodromos Kolyvakis

The purpose of this paper is to present our ideas of applying semantic modelling and ontologies to the issues of products and services. Two selected issues are discussed: i) the collection and reuse of product-service lifecycle data in an IoT-enabled frame ...

Ieee2016

A Methodology for Holistic Lifecycle Approach as Decision Support System for Closed-loop Lifecycle Management

Fatih Karakoyun

Sustainability of their products and practices provides companies with a competitive set of methods and tools to maintain, improve and expand customer and supplier relationships and to ensure access to strategic markets. Companies pay a lot of attention to ...

EPFL2015

Ontologies in the context of product lifecycle management: state of the art literature review

Dimitrios Kyritsis, Soumaya El Kadiri

The use of ontologies in the context of product lifecycle management (PLM) is gaining importance and popularity, while at the same time it generates a lot of controversy in discussions within scientific and engineering communities. Yet, what is ontology? W ...

Taylor & Francis Ltd2015

Towards Seamless Continuation of Knowledge in Product Lifecycle Management

Apostolos Perdikakis

The current ICT for manufacturing landscape is characterized by scattered data formats, tools and processes dedicated to different phases in the product lifecycle. Due to the diversity of tools and data formats, manufacturing struggles to cope with new tre ...

EPFL2015

On the optimal frequency of multiple generation product introductions

Ralf Seifert, Shuangqing Liao

This paper considers a firm that introduces multiple generations of a product to the market at regular intervals. We assume that the firm has only a single production generation in the market at any time. To maximize the total profit within a given plannin ...

2015

Knowledge-based decision support for improving the adaptive product development process

Predrag Spasojevic

The product development process (PDP) is a complex process encompassing many very diverse activities, and involving a fairly big number of actors, spread across different professions, teams and companies. In todayâ s product development, more often than n ...

EPFL2015

Industrial challenges in managing product development knowledge

Myrna Fatima Flores Pineda

To systematically create and share product development knowledge creates challenges for engineering companies. This paper presents an extensive study regarding the process of identifying such challenges in managing product development knowledge from the pe ...

Elsevier2014

Product relationships management enabler for concurrent engineering and product lifecycle management

Dimitrios Kyritsis

The current competitive industrial context requires more flexible, intelligent and compact product lifecycles, especially in the product development process where several lifecycle issues have to be considered, so as to deliver lifecycle oriented products. ...

Elsevier2013

Inventory Management with Working Capital Restrictions

Cristopher Ariel Zeballos Avila

Working capital restrictions can have disruptive effects on the coordination of the operations and finances of a company. Working capital restrictions may limit the inventory ordering power, reduce revenues, and increase the use of high premium debt. It ma ...

EPFL2013

Integrated product relationships management: a model to enable concurrent product design and assembly sequence planning

Dimitrios Kyritsis

The paper describes a novel approach to product relationships management in the context of concurrent engineering and product lifecycle management (PLM). Current industrial practices in product data management and manufacturing process management systems r ...

2012

An Ontology-Based Approach for Closed-Loop Product Lifecycle Management

Aristeidis Matsokis

The main goal of the Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) is the management of all the data associated to a product during its lifecycle. Lifecycle data is being generated by events and actions (of various lifecycle agents which are humans and/or software sy ...

EPFL2010

An ontology-based approach for Product Lifecycle Management

Dimitrios Kyritsis, Aristeidis Matsokis

Ontologies are rapidly becoming popular in various research fields. There is a tendency both in converting existing models into ontologies and in creating new models. In this work we are focusing on Closed-Loop Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) models. An ...

Elsevier2010

Modelling for product information tracking and feedback via wireless technology in closed-loop supply chains

Closed-loop supply chains (CLSC) consider all of the activities in the lifecycle of a product from design to end-of-life operation. These chains encompass, in addition to the traditional forward flow of products to customers, the acquisition and return flo ...

Taylor & Francis2009

Decision support methods for closed-loop conceptual design

Jongho Shin

The dissertation deals with closed-loop product lifecycle management (PLM) approaches for the product conceptual design improvement using gathered data during the usage period of a product. In closed-loop PLM, the data generated in each lifecycle phase can ...

EPFL2009