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Efficient management of product information that covers the entire life cycle is critical to the enhancement of corporate competitiveness. This chapter explores the design and development of a World Wide Web (WWW)-based PD information management system for a cross-nation manufacturing corporation that is headed by a holding company in Christchurch, New Zealand. Since product data are often managed in a distributed computing environment, CORBA is employed to ensure interoperability among distributed information objects. The WWW-based information management system discussed in this chapter includes two major components: 1. WWW-based product design and development distributed object oriented databases; 2. A WWW-based integrated system platform. Several submodels are introduced; these include an object oriented database structure, a WWW-based information management system, a WWW database tool, an information access tool, the incremental process planning method and an integrated software platform for the integration of CAD, CAPP, CAM and the WWW-based information management system.
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Xie, S., Tu, Y. (2011). An Internet-based Product Information Management System. In: Rapid One-of-a-kind Product Development. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-84996-341-1_13
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