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Design changes are an unavoidable reality in the construction industry. After construction documents are released, changes may be made to them by different stakeholders for various reasons. Design changes must be well managed in accordance with a design change management (DCM) process to avoid time and cost overruns. Furthermore, the right tools mu...
Within the overarching theme of “Managing the Digital Transformation of Construction Industry” the 23rd International Conference on Construction Applications of Virtual Reality (CONVR 2023) presented 123 high-quality contributions on the topics of: Virtual and Augmented Reality (VR/AR), Building Information Modeling (BIM), Simulation and Automation...
This paper proposes a systematic literature review (SLR) of the referenced research on 4D simulation in the construction industry. It uses the community structure method and modularity optimization techniques to propose a mapping of the research efforts dedicated to 4D simulation in construction. A total of 674 normalized keywords from 386 publicat...
[FR] Le Building Information Modeling (BIM) est une innovation qui regroupe un ensemble de méthodes, processus et outils de travail permettant d'alimenter et d'exploiter des informations d'un ouvrage bâti tout au long de son cycle de vie. Les CDE (Common Data Environment) sont des espaces numériques ou plateformes qui supportent les processus BIM....
Le Building Information Modeling (BIM) est une innovation qui regroupe un ensemble de méthodes, processus et outils de travail permettant d’alimenter et d’exploiter des informations d’un ouvrage bâti tout au long de son cycle de vie. Les CDE (Common Data Environment) sont des espaces numériques ou plateformes qui supportent les processus BIM. Ils o...
Building information modelling (BIM) and product lifecycle management (PLM) technologies provide automatic model checking (AMC) tools that can be used for the prevention of occupational health and safety (OHS) risks through design (PtD). Considering that the risks related to energy sources during the operation stage of industrial facilities can be...
The fourth industrial revolution is shaping a new industrial landscape. A variety of technologies related to software, information and communication technologies embody a ubiquitous digital and connectivity era. These technologies enable the creation of new products with the integration of connectivity, data collection and processing capacities whi...
The purpose of this study is to enhance point cloud semantic segmentation by using point clouds from multiple distinct technologies on the same capture location and to determine whether employing various technologies throughout the acquisition process yields better performance during classification. The different point clouds were captured in the s...
This document gathers cartographies for the development of mechatronic products, cyber-physical systems and smart products. The three cartographies presented are associated with an open-access article-see the citation box below-and differ from the ones provided in the article in that they are searchable, which makes it easier to pinpoint references...
IFIP AICT 594. Product Lifecycle Management Enabling Smart X. 17th IFIP WG 5.1 International Conference, PLM 2020. Rapperswil, Switzerland, July 5–8, 2020. Revised Selected Papers.
This book constitutes the refereed post-conference proceedings of the 17th IFIP WG 5.1 International Conference on Product Lifecycle Management, PLM 2020, held in Rappe...
Comparison is at the center of many research studies that leads to the interaction between different objects and mostly resulted in significant improvements. Especially, comparing business/technological approaches, such as building information modeling (BIM) and product lifecycle management (PLM), is an activity that is often difficult and complex,...
A semantic model difference identification (MDI) solution can be defined as an MDI solution that identifies and represents the differences between two compared models in terms of meaningful engineering information. Semantic representation of the differences between 3D CAD models is especially challenging due to the variety of modeling solutions use...
The last decades have seen considerable effort invested in a digital transition in the construction industry. While the building information modeling (BIM) approach plays an important role in such a transition, more and more technological approaches are emerging and grouped together under the concept of Construction 4.0. However, the contours of Co...
The fourth industrial revolution is forcing companies to rethink their status quo – creating a need to assess their digital maturity as a basis for improvements. As a result, there is a variety of maturity models available in the literature. This paper introduces a novel comparison framework designed to compare different digital maturity assessment...
There has been considerable interest in Building Information Modeling (BIM) research and development during the last decade. BIM has established itself as a field of research in (and beyond) scientific communities interested in information technologies in construction. Interestingly, the contours of BIM as a scientific field are still not clearly i...
With the advances in the aerospace industry, specialized tools, e.g. specialized modelling tools for aerospace sheet metal, have been developed to help at various stages of the product lifecycle. Although structural sheet metal parts form a significant portion of airplanes, there is no specialized automated feature recognition (AFR) method dedicate...
Le poster présente les premiers constats et éléments d’analyse dans le cadre du projet de génération et de traitement de nuages de points multicouches de parcelles terrestres comportant une ou plusieurs zones d’intérêts (structure, étendue d’eau, végétation, etc.).
This book constitutes the refereed post-conference proceedings of the 16th IFIP WG 5.1 International Conference on Product Lifecycle Management, PLM 2019, held in Moscow, Russia, in July 2019.
The 38 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 63 submissions. The papers are organized in the following topical sections: 3D...
Within product development, software and connectivity are playing an ever-increasing role, driven by information and communication technologies, part of the Industrie 4.0 paradigm. Product development has evolved accordingly to integrate new disciplines. Multidisciplinary product development (MPD) is supported by a variety of approaches, processes,...
The use of building information modelling (BIM) in construction compares to the use of product lifecycle management (PLM) in manufacturing. Previous research has shown that it is possible to improve BIM with the features and the best practices from the PLM approach. This article provides a comparison from the standpoint of the bill of materials (BO...
The use of building information modelling (BIM) in construction compares to the use of product lifecycle management (PLM) in manufacturing. Previous research has shown that it is possible to improve BIM with the features and the best practices from the PLM approach. This article provides a comparison from the standpoint of the bill of materials (BO...
Multidisciplinary systems (such as Mechatronics or Cyber Physical Systems) are considered as the resulting integration of design expertise from several disciplines such as electrical/electronic, mechanical and computer sciences. As a result, a large number of design data, such as software code, CAD models, 0D/1D and 2D/3D CAE results, etc. are gene...
The quest for improved productivity and optimized construction costs are continuously challenging the industry. The experience gained from the manufacturing industry showed that off-site manufacturing appears to be a promising alternative to the classic way of building a powerhouse complex. However, ingularity of projects, sizes of powerhouse compl...
This paper presents a method introducing Agile practices in project planned methodology in the context of a multidisciplinary product design. These multidisciplinary products can be Mechatronics or Cyber-Physical-Systems. Various design methodologies and types of project architecture already exist. Some of them are focused on a micro-level, whereas...
This paper presents a conceptual framework for Mechatronics, Cyber Physical Systems (CPS) and electromechanics. This framework is made for CPS and Mechatronics initially, by looking at the background of those systems. A distinction is then proposed between Mechatronics and Electromechanics, with an energy-based approach. These distinctions are envi...
Current Computer-Aided Design (CAD) packages support the storage of the final design models and solutions in different formats, and PLM software manages the high-level information about the design process, such as the versioning of the design solutions. However, the processes happening inside the CAD software are not being fully captured. Informati...
PLM encompasses a wide array of expertise, from designing green products to digital factories, with perspectives ranging from an IT standpoint to business strategies, encompassing products, processes and services. Hence, identifying the contours of PLM as a science through the themes, trends and clusters of its scientific literature is very challen...
The increasing use of Building Information Modelling (BIM) across the construction industry highlights the potential for a common endpoint with manufacturing industries. Previous research work has shown that it is possible to improve BIM with the features and the best practices from Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) approach. This article provides...
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 13th IFIP WG 5.1 International Conference on Product Lifecycle Management, PLM 2016, held in Columbia, SC, USA, in July 2016.
The 57 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 77 submissions. The papers are organized in the following topical sections: knowledge sha...
Product lifecycle management (PLM) is a strategic product-centric, lifecycle-oriented and information-driven business approach that strives to integrate people and their inherent practices, processes, and technologies, both within and across functional areas of the extended enterprise from inception to disposal. The integration of people relies on...
Structural steel transport is an important aspect of the construction and steel industries. It is surprising to find that structural steel packing is still done empirically by experienced workers. Therefore, this paper explores how this problem is currently dealt with in steel plants to document the loaders' reasoning, since no literature on the su...
The complete definition of a product often requires the collaboration of various partners. Data sharing and exchange between partners has thus become an important task throughout a product's entire life cycle. Even while subsets of the product definition are exchanged (as work packages) and modified by various partners, the global product definitio...
With the advancements of 3D modeling software, the use of 3D CAD in mechanical product design has become a standard practice. Methods and tools are continually being developed to improve designers’ efficiency in the creation, modification and analysis of 3D CAD models. Among other advantages, comparing 3D CAD models to assess their relative shape s...
The use of 3D CAD in mechanical product design has become a standard practice. Consequently, methods and tools are continually being developed to improve designers’ efficiency in the creation, modification and analysis of 3D CAD models. Recent software developments had led to the emergence of multiple tools capable of comparing 3D CAD models to loc...
Reducing the costs of bringing a new product to market is an objective common to all industries. In aeronautics, one of the options being pursued to achieve this goal is to eliminate the use of traditional engineering drawings from the product development process– chiefly by integrating a portion of the information normally contained in these drawi...
The multi-disciplinary nature of mechatronics product significantly increases complexity of the development process. In this paper, the benefits of agile design methods are presented for multi-disciplinary system integration.
After describing a model illustrating the relation between design state, decision making and multi-domain system integration...
The Change Management (CM) and version control mechanisms used in the mechanical and software domains are presented in the Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) and Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) approaches, respectively. Based on their comparison, this paper discusses branching/merging concepts and utilizes them to propose an evolution of the...
In the current collaborative and extended-enterprise environment, product definition must be exchanged between original equipment manufactur-ers (OEM) and other partners who contribute to the evolution of product defini-tion. In many cases, an information package, which is associated with other objects in the DMU, must thus be extracted from the OE...
In this paper, the Change Management (CM) and version control mechanisms used in the mechanical and software domains are presented respectively in the Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) and Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) approaches. Based on their comparison results, this paper discusses branching / merging concepts and presents them as an...
Although much PLM implementations and research have focused Q1Qon data storage and management, real value of data is achieved through its reuse, as data is considered to be an asset that acquires its value only by its consumption [1].The general data reuse process is described and two variants identified: 1) data reuse that results from stakeholder...
Advancements in 3D CAD allow product shape to act as a common language to represent and retrieve reusable product information in PLM systems. While shape-based retrieval techniques contribute to the part design reuse process by retrieving similar part models, selecting the optimal candidate for reuse remains a challenge. A more refined shape compar...
In the current collaborative and extended-enterprise environment, product definition must be exchanged between original equipment manufacturers (OEM) and other partners who contribute to the evolution of product definition. In many cases, an information package, which is associated with other objects in the DMU, must thus be extracted from the OEM’...
Nowadays, companies have to cope with numerous constraints at organisational and technical levels in order to improve their
competitiveness edges such as productivity, efficiency, and flexibility. Integrated product–process design becomes more and
more complex to manage because of increasingly customized products related to various stakeholders and...
Currently, 3D models and 2D drawings are the main basic elements that together form and carry the product definition throughout the product lifecycle. With the advent of the Digital Product Definition trend, industries have been interested in adopting a Model-based Definition (MBD) approach that enables the integration of drawing annotations direct...
The model-based definition (MBD) approach represents a trend in computer-aided design (CAD) that promises reduced time-to-market and improved product quality. Its main purpose is to enhance and accelerate the design, manufacturing and inspection of new products by integrating drawing annotations directly onto a 3D model; thereby obviating the need...
This book constitutes the refereed post-proceedings of the 9th IFIP WG 5.1 International Conference on Product Lifecycle Management, PLM 2012, held in Montreal, Canada, in July 2012. The 58 full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from numerous submissions. They cover a large range of topics such as collaboration in PLM, tools and...
The paper describes a novel framework for an assembly-oriented design (AOD) approach as a new functional product lifecycle management (PLM) strategy, by considering product design and assembly sequence planning phases concurrently. Integration issues of product life cycle into the product development process have received much attention over the la...
In this paper, the importance of mechatronic systems integration is underlined. To make this integration possible in a collaborative environment, new tools have to be developed. After presenting the Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) advantages, two different approaches are described: hardware/software integration thanks to Product Data Management...
The paper presents a methodology in the field of Design for Assembly (DFA) related to the Assembly Process Engineering (APE) and the Product Lifecycle Management (PLM). This method has been designed to develop assembly methods into a legacy web-based PLM prototype. It takes into consideration assembly constraints in the early phases of the product...
The Model-based Definition (MBD) approach is gaining popularity in various industries. MBD represents a trend in Computer-aided Design (CAD) that promises reduced time-to-market and improved product quality. Its main goal is to improve and accelerate the design, manufacturing and inspection processes by integrating drawing annotations directly onto...
In product lifecycle management, the efficiency of information reuse relies on the definition and management of equivalence information between various product data and structure representations. Equivalence information ensures the consistency and traceability of product information throughout the product lifecycle. The sales-delivery process of en...
Successful technology transfer process is a continuous, interactive process where individuals exchange knowledge simultaneously and continuously [1]. This article concerns the evaluation of Knowledge Management methods to support the technology transfer process. The article focuses on an analysis to be performed in order to choose the best combinat...
Currently, product design is mainly influenced by customer requirements, i.e. designers are more and more focused to have a well-balanced product between function and form. However, other requirements from corporate processes such as assembly engineering should be taken into account during the design process to avoid iterations problems and therefo...
Cet article présente un modèle produit en tenant compte des contraintes issues du métier de l'assemblage et de
l'ergonomie afin de faciliter l'échange d'informations entre les services de l'entreprise et ainsi mener une
approche de conception descendante. Lier le produit avec son processus d'assemblage demande une gestion des relations entre les di...
Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) is an approach for controlling and exploiting product-related information throughout its lifecycle as needed by various business functions. Concurrent engineering (CE) integrates several disciplines contributing to product design. Both PLM and CE involve information sharing amongst disciplines having a specific po...
The customization of CAD tools and the development of trade-oriented applications make it possible to eliminate tedious tasks of modeling that would otherwise monopolize the time of designers. This article reviews some concepts, such as entity typifying, associations, imprints and pseudo-imprints, used to associate features to form a dynamic produc...
Difficulty in locating existing information in order to reuse it constitutes a major challenge to productivity. The use of PLM systems (Product Lifecycle Management) aims in particular to reduce the time and cost of developing a product by facilitating the re-use of existing parts or related information (process plans, tools, FEM, estimates, etc.)....
Product design integrates several disciplines in a concurrent engineering (CE) environment. Each one of these disciplines has a specific point of view on the product being developed. While each discipline exerts its own expertise and methods on the definition of the product and its related processes, information must remain consistent for all disci...
Current Computer Aided Design (CAD) systems can capture some of the design intent by creating associations between objects. This increases the productivity during product development, and helps maintain the coherence of the product definition when handling engineering changes. CAD systems establish some associations as well as their use at a rather...
Facing increasing product complexity and pressure to reduce time to market, manufacturing process planning (MPP) engineers must be able to quickly access reliable information in order to make swift and correct decisions. Organizations therefore turn to information management tools, such as PDM (Product Data Management), MPM (Manufacturing Process M...
Over the years, machine tool evolution has allowed faster equipment, using new configurations, to manufacture parts that were almost impossible to machine in the past. Despite this tremendous evolution in machine and control technologies, the metalworking industry is still using the old ISO 6983 G-Codes programming interface to control the motion o...
The advent of open architecture controllers for numerically controlled machine tools has fostered the development of new control languages. These languages introduce functionalities so as to make the most of machine operations and attempt to overcome the limitations of G-Codes. This language, currently used by controllers, has been repeatedly criti...
Computer Aided Design systems still suffer from a number of shortcomings with regards to the full design process: they provide limited solutions for maintaining product data consistency and offer no assistance to relieve designers from tedious, repetitive, solid modeling work. This paper presents a framework for improved support of the design proce...
The 3D analysis of tolerances is one of the critical functional requirements of solid-modelling systems which is most lacking at the present time. 3D tolerance analysis is most difficult to carry out by hand when it involves geometrical tolerances. A computerized 3D tolerance analysis is therefore needed, and an appropriate tolerancing model must b...