Os sistemas de Gestão do Ciclo de Vida do Produto (Product Lifeclycle Management – PLM), apesar de serem de suma importância no Processo de Desenvolvimento de Produtos (PDP) para que as empresas enfrentem as novas condições de sobrevivência no mercado atual, ainda não são plenamente conhecidos. Além disso, existem poucos trabalhos científicos relacionados à implantação deste tipo de sistemas durante o Processo de Desenvolvimento de um novo produto na empresa. Neste trabalho, realizou-se a análise da implantação de um sistema PLM no PDP de uma empresa de tecnologia através de: (i) levantamento do estado da arte sobre sistemas PLM, segundo a literatura, incluindo a apresentação dos modelos de referência e a integração das informações neste tipo de sistemas; (ii) comparativo entre as funções e tecnologias de sistemas de gestão do ciclo de vida do produto encontrados na bibliografia com os de um caso de implantação real e (iii) levantamento de quais funcionalidades e tecnologias presentes na implantação real de um sistema PLM (Product Lifecycle Management) suprem os requisitos de gestão do ciclo de vida do produto na empresa, para caracterizar um projeto de implantação real de um sistema PLM no PDP de uma empresa de tecnologia. / The Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) Systems, although being a imperative request to allow companies to develop new products, facing the new survival conditions in the current market, are not very well-known. Besides that, there are few scientific works related to the implementation of this kind of system and its usage in a Product Development environment. The objectives of this work are: (i) to rise, according with the bibliography, the state of the art of PLM systems, (ii) to rise, according to the bibliography, the functionalities and technologies requirements of a PLM system in a Product Development Process (PDP) environment and to compare those requirements with a real implementation case and (iii) to rise which funcionalities and technologies of PLM (Product Lifecycle Management) systems supply the founded needs to characterize a project of a real PLM system implementation in a Product Development Process environment.

Nowadays, production environment became more and more competitive due to innovative improvements and applications in industrial systems. Manufacturers aim to implement technological solutions into their production systems from the design phase until the product’s end of life. This approach provides several benefits to manufacturers such as; reduced cost, increased productivity, reduced time-to-market etc. Augmented Reality (AR) is one of the most popular technologies which provides innovative solution to manufacturers. There is a variety of use of AR applications in manufacturing world such as; assemble, training, maintenance, recycling etc. On the other hand, the product data andits traceability became more and more important within supply chain. In order to improve their competitiveness on the market, manufacturers started to search for solutions which helps to improve production practices in terms of cost and time. PLM solutions have provided a better understanding to use of product data and improved the production systems. This project aims to develop a framework which integrates the AR and PLM context with the purpose of optimization of the support given to the operator and reporting of the manufacturing operations. An AR –PLM Framework has been developed and a demonstrator has been implemented as a proof of the concept in this project.

Knowledge sharing across domains is key to bringing down the cost of production and the time to market of products. This thesis is directed to improve the knowledge sharing capability of the present systems that use information and communication technologies. Systems for different domains have structures that are made up of concepts and relations with different semantic interpretations. Therefore, knowledge sharing across such domains becomes an issue. Knowledge sharing across multiple domains can be facilitated through a system that can provide a shared understanding across multiple domains. This requires a rigorous common semantic base underlying the domains across which to share knowledge.

Os sistemas de Gestão do Ciclo de Vida do Produto (Product Lifeclycle Management – PLM), apesar de serem de suma importância no Processo de Desenvolvimento de Produtos (PDP) para que as empresas enfrentem as novas condições de sobrevivência no mercado atual, ainda não são plenamente conhecidos. Além disso, existem poucos trabalhos científicos relacionados à implantação deste tipo de sistemas durante o Processo de Desenvolvimento de um novo produto na empresa. Neste trabalho, realizou-se a análise da implantação de um sistema PLM no PDP de uma empresa de tecnologia através de: (i) levantamento do estado da arte sobre sistemas PLM, segundo a literatura, incluindo a apresentação dos modelos de referência e a integração das informações neste tipo de sistemas; (ii) comparativo entre as funções e tecnologias de sistemas de gestão do ciclo de vida do produto encontrados na bibliografia com os de um caso de implantação real e (iii) levantamento de quais funcionalidades e tecnologias presentes na implantação real de um sistema PLM (Product Lifecycle Management) suprem os requisitos de gestão do ciclo de vida do produto na empresa, para caracterizar um projeto de implantação real de um sistema PLM no PDP de uma empresa de tecnologia. / The Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) Systems, although being a imperative request to allow companies to develop new products, facing the new survival conditions in the current market, are not very well-known. Besides that, there are few scientific works related to the implementation of this kind of system and its usage in a Product Development environment. The objectives of this work are: (i) to rise, according with the bibliography, the state of the art of PLM systems, (ii) to rise, according to the bibliography, the functionalities and technologies requirements of a PLM system in a Product Development Process (PDP) environment and to compare those requirements with a real implementation case and (iii) to rise which funcionalities and technologies of PLM (Product Lifecycle Management) systems supply the founded needs to characterize a project of a real PLM system implementation in a Product Development Process environment.

A gestão do ciclo de vida de produtos (Product Lifecycle Management) é uma abordagem para a gestão integrada dos processos de negócio e das informações relacionadas aos produtos. Tal abordagem requer a utilização de sistemas de informação (Sistemas PLM) para apoiar a colaboração na empresa estendida, ao longo de todo o ciclo de vida. O problema prático que motiva a realização deste trabalho é a dificuldade enfrentada pelas empresas, atualmente, em avaliar os sistemas PLM existentes no mercado e em selecionar a alternativa mais adequada aos seus processos de negócio. A análise da situação atual da pesquisa na área indica que faltam métodos e instrumentos para apoiar a seleção de sistemas PLM. Visando preencher essa lacuna e propor uma solução para o problema identificado, o trabalho tem como objetivos definir um modelo de referência de sistemas PLM, que represente de forma genérica as funcionalidades que caracterizam esse tipo de sistema, e desenvolver um método para a seleção de sistemas PLM baseado em modelos de referência. A fim de atingir esses objetivos, são gerados quatro resultados principais. O primeiro resultado do trabalho é o framework conceitual de elementos do PLM, que organiza o conhecimento existente sobre PLM de forma estruturada, para que ele possa servir de referência em projetos de implantação da gestão do ciclo de vida de produtos em empresas. O segundo resultado é o modelo de referência de sistemas PLM, que permite estabelecer uma base comum para a comparação entre os diversos sistemas PLM disponíveis comercialmente. O terceiro resultado é o modelo integrado processo-sistemas PLM e a ferramenta para utilização desse modelo integrado na prática. Por fim, o quarto resultado é o método de seleção de sistemas PLM com base em modelos de referência, que utiliza o modelo integrado processo-sistemas PLM para orientar a seleção do sistema mais adequado a uma empresa específica. A avaliação dos resultados indica que os instrumentos e o método propostos neste trabalho contribuem para auxiliar as empresas, especialmente as empresas de médio porte, na identificação de um sistema PLM adequado para atender aos requisitos de seus processos de negócio. / Product Lifecycle Management is an approach to the integrated management of business processes and product-related information. This approach requires information systems (PLM Systems) to provide collaboration support throughout the business and across product lifecycle. The practical problem that gave rise to this research was the challenge companies currently face in assessing existing PLM systems and in selecting the best alternative for their business processes. Examining the status of the research carried out in the field to date shows that there is a lack of methods and tools to effectively support companies in choosing their PLM Systems. Aiming at closing this gap and offering a solution for this problem, the goals of this study are: to provide a definition for PLM system reference models that generally represents the functionalities that characterize this kind of system, and to develop a method for choosing PLM systems based on the reference models. In meeting these goals, this research arrived at four main results. Firstly, at a conceptual framework of PLM elements providing an organized structure of the existing knowledge developed so far on PLM. This framework can be used as a reference in projects to implement product lifecycle management in companies. Secondly, at a PLM system reference model that establishes a common basis for comparing the many PLM systems available in the market. Thirdly, at an integrated PLM process-system model and tool for using this integrated model in practice. Lastly, at a method for selecting PLM systems based on the reference model, that uses the integrated PLM process-system model to support and guide users in choosing the best system for a certain company. The assessment of the results shows that the proposed tools and method effectively help companies, specially medium-sized businesses, in identifying the most adequate PLM system to meet their business process requirements.

Os sistemas de Gestão do Ciclo de Vida do Produto (Product Lifeclycle Management – PLM), apesar de serem de suma importância no Processo de Desenvolvimento de Produtos (PDP) para que as empresas enfrentem as novas condições de sobrevivência no mercado atual, ainda não são plenamente conhecidos. Além disso, existem poucos trabalhos científicos relacionados à implantação deste tipo de sistemas durante o Processo de Desenvolvimento de um novo produto na empresa. Neste trabalho, realizou-se a análise da implantação de um sistema PLM no PDP de uma empresa de tecnologia através de: (i) levantamento do estado da arte sobre sistemas PLM, segundo a literatura, incluindo a apresentação dos modelos de referência e a integração das informações neste tipo de sistemas; (ii) comparativo entre as funções e tecnologias de sistemas de gestão do ciclo de vida do produto encontrados na bibliografia com os de um caso de implantação real e (iii) levantamento de quais funcionalidades e tecnologias presentes na implantação real de um sistema PLM (Product Lifecycle Management) suprem os requisitos de gestão do ciclo de vida do produto na empresa, para caracterizar um projeto de implantação real de um sistema PLM no PDP de uma empresa de tecnologia. / The Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) Systems, although being a imperative request to allow companies to develop new products, facing the new survival conditions in the current market, are not very well-known. Besides that, there are few scientific works related to the implementation of this kind of system and its usage in a Product Development environment. The objectives of this work are: (i) to rise, according with the bibliography, the state of the art of PLM systems, (ii) to rise, according to the bibliography, the functionalities and technologies requirements of a PLM system in a Product Development Process (PDP) environment and to compare those requirements with a real implementation case and (iii) to rise which funcionalities and technologies of PLM (Product Lifecycle Management) systems supply the founded needs to characterize a project of a real PLM system implementation in a Product Development Process environment.

This report is about the product data classification methodology that is useable for the Volvo Cars Engine (VCE) factory's production data, and can be implemented in the Teamcenter software. There are many data generated during the life cycle of each product, and companies try to manage these data with some product data management software. Data classification is a part of data management for most effective and efficient use of data. With surveys that were done in this project, items affecting the data classification have been found. Data, attributes, classification method, Volvo Cars Engine factory and Teamcenter as the product data management software, are items that are affected data classification. In this report, all of these items will be explained separately. With the knowledge obtained about the above items, in the Volvo Cars Engine factory, the suitable hierarchical classification method is described. After defining the classification method, this method has been implemented in the software at the last part of the report to show that this method is executable.

It is arguably an important matter to track and eliminate poor quality. One way of doing this within software development is by applying the technical debt metaphor and using it as a basis when estimating the quality level. There was interest expressed in investigating whether this metaphor could be extended to the development of non-software products and use it as a starting point for developing features in a PLM (product lifecycle management) system able to track and help monitor technical debt throughout the lifecycle of a product. Thus, a case study based on a literature review and interviews analysed qualitatively were conducted. The result consists of the knowledge that similar notions as found in the technical debt research could successfully be applied to other development processes and phenomena as well, a framework consisting of types of technical debt and a “sketch” for how to measure it, and that in a technical debt-tracking feature it could be beneficial with functionality for implementing models for debt quantification, for allowing the organisation to set up rules, and for crawling through the product taxonomy in the PLM system, detecting deviances from aforementioned rules.

The need to include sustainable design principles during product realization poses several challenges in need of research. The demand for greener products has increased while competition has shortened product realization processes. Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) provides solutions in accelerating the development process and time to market by managing the information through a full life cycle of a product line. Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) provides a way to predict the environmental impacts that should be expected over the complete life cycle of a given product, but LCA methods are not well suited to efficient comparison of product alternatives during early design stages. Customers and other stakeholders demand products that not only comply with regulations and minimize environmental impacts, but also minimize costs and maximize certain performance objectives of a product. Thus, an approach is needed to unify validation of new products compliance with holistic consideration of environmental impacts along with other objectives over a complete life cycle for the selection of the optimal design concept in an efficient manner. This research addresses these matters by proposing the approach of integrating LCA software with a PLM system. A conceptual LCA framework- LCAatPLM (Life Cycle Assessment of assembly tree in PLM) is proposed that allows environmental assessment of assembly tree directly extracted from PLM. Firstly, relevant existing solutions are reviewed and several challenges are identified that prevent integration. By decomposing the structure of both PLM and LCA, a common foundation is identified for the integration. Then, a design methodology is developed to show the use of LCAatPLM within PLM environment. A charcoal grill design case study is detailed to show how evaluations can be made based on achievement of strategic goals, along with verification of compliance and the visibility of LCA and other results. Our findings show that design executions through LCA integrated with PLM reveal environmental criterion at early stages. It can be considered with other design criteria to identify and select optimal alternatives. This research transforms LCA as an evaluation tool used after a design is already completed to one that can guide designs earlier within the PLM environment.

In an ever changing market that expands continuously and where innovations cycles become shorter, there is an important increase of the renewal frequency of the electrical and electronic equipment (EEE) and vehicles. This makes the manufacture of EEE and vehicles a fast-growing source of waste in terms of used products. The immense amount of information generated by all these technological products which are currently in the market must be managed throughout the whole life cycle of the products. The problem is to provide information about the technological product’s reusability in the recycling process given the colossal complexity of many products and the lifespan of operation. This includes instructions about the components qualifications as elements in a new product. Technologies such as augmented reality (AR) combined with product lifecycle management (PLM) systems can provide the platform for an information system that provides the necessary information and support for the decommissioning process of EEE and vehicles at the end of their life cycle. The present project describes the framework of integration between AR and PLM with the purpose of recycling a technological product at the end of its life cycle. The proposed method of integration could be considered to constitute both an innovation and a possible improvement if compared with the current approach. It is believed that the development of a method that addresses the issue of integration between AR and PLM could provide with a secure, efficient management of stored data related to various products and their properties related to the recycling process at the end-of-life of the product. The result of this approach is an AR-PLM system architecture which assists the circular economy’s recycling process by the use of visual information superimposed on the physical technological equipment.