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Chapter 29
Multisite PLM Platform:
A Collaborative Design Environment
George Draghici
Politehnica University of Timisoara, Romania
Anca Draghici
Politehnica University of Timisoara, Romania
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Today, product development is a result of a collaborative design process in network. Taking into consid-
eration this fact, a National Research Network for Integrated Product and Process Engineering (INPRO)
has been created. The present chapter presents the relevant items for building a PLM multisite platform
for collaborative integrated product development based on the common researches developed in the
INPRO project and network. The authors argue this approach by presenting the collaborative distributed
design process, the product model and the PLM multisite platform for collaborative integrated product
development. Based on these was built a collaborative multisite platform that join together the methodol-
ogy, methods and tools for Product Lifecycle Management (PLM), Knowledge Management (KM) and
Human Resources Management (HRU), examples of good practice. The core of the proposed approach
is the product lifecycle model which is the base for the proposed collaborative product development
methodology and the multisite PLM platform architecture. The presented research results were gained
from our implication in the project “National Research Network for Integrated Product and Process
Engineering - INPRO” (contract no. 243 / 08.09.2006). The model of building such collaborative design
environment was inspired by the Virtual Research Laboratory for a Knowledge Community in Production
(VRL-KCiP) a Network of Excellence project (contract no. FP6-507487). From 2008 the authors extended
their research at the European level, in the context of a Lifelong Learning Programme, Leonardo da
Vinci - Transfer of Innovation (contract nr. FR/08/LLP-LdV/TOI/117025), “Certified Integrated Design
Engineer - iDesigner” in which they used the collaborative platform for the students and researchers
professional qualification and certification.
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