A PPO Model-based Knowledge Management Approach for PLM Knowledge Acquisition and Integration

This paper proposes one model-based knowledge management approach, aiming to capture comprehensive knowledge from Product Lifecycle Management (PLM). Besides acquiring product information, we have adapted Product-Process-Organization (PPO) models to enrich the knowledge, in the perspective of long term preservation. We have extended CommonKADS knowledge engineering methodology as the framework to carry out PPO models, which are used to capture organizational, process and product knowledge from PLM. When extracted, the knowledge in different models will be merged, by using XML, into a comprehensive knowledge model. The knowledge model is designed based on the information package concept in Open Archival Information System (OAIS) reference model, which aims in long term digital preservation. The knowledge captured by the knowledge management approach will be archived and reused through our knowledge management system (an OAIS instance).