Code of PLM openness

NN (2010) Code of PLM openness, ProSTEP iVip association, Darmstadt. http7Avww. prostep.org/en/cpo.html. Acessed 4 Aug 2014... 

General requirements have to be met before starting the system level realization, such as unified ordinal structures which are organizing all development data. These stmctures are ideally aligned to end customer functions. Furthermore, in the system design process the integration aspect needs to be considered. This can happen for instance through the use of standardized data models and the availabihty of interfaces [see code of PLM openness (CPO)]. For example it has to be possible to find... 

Code of PLM Openness—Openness as a Requirement for the Implementation of Systems Engineering in a Company... 

Keywords Product concepts Automotive development system Simultaneous engineering System landscape of engineering IT Semantic nets Service orientated architecture Code of PLM openness ISO 10303-242 ISO 14306 Knowledge based design... 

The quality of process integration depends on the abilily of the systems involved to interact with each other seamlessly. Here technologies such as service oriented architecffires (SOA), WEB 2.0 capabilities, and international standards like ISO 10303 (STEP) and 14306 (JT) support this integration. If new solutions have to be added to the system enviromnent, the ability of integration plays a major role. This is the reason why the automotive industry started the mitiative to define a code of PLM openness (CPO) to evaluate and classify potential solutions concerning the ability to integrate (see Sect. 21.5). 

A final property of interest is the level of standardization associated with products and processes. Standardization may help to achieve desirable properties that have been mentioned before, such as interoperability (Chap. 6). However, the effort to standardize comes with its own costs, and may impact the capability of an organization to respond to localized (i.e., non-standard) issues. Good examples are given by the global automotive and aerospace industries, where many standards have been developed and adopted to facilitate partial processes of CE with participation of IT vendors (see Sects. 6.5.1 and 21.6). The Code of PLM Openness (CPO) is a further initiative, which will facilitate global progress in standardization [36]. 

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