A holonic metamodel for product traceability in PLM

Abstract Product and production management have become complex processes where more problems are overlapping each other’s, while product development might ever more take into account improved customers’ tastes and requests in a shorter time-to-market. The product lifecycle and its related management (PLM) are becoming unavoidable key aspects, creating such a “product centric” problem. The integrated management of all the information regarding the product is one of the related questions. One of the main issues concerning with the product management in a wider perspective, deals with the traceability of the product itself. The present paper aims at discussing the question of product lifecycle management as a question of product traceability. The product traceability problem concerns with the management of the identification of a product along its lifecycle. All the information related to the coded “product” is generally stored into one (or more) database. Then, a merging activity between the product and its information is a mandatory step. This re-merging activity is still not risk-free, since different accidents could occur. The paper aims at discussing an innovative approach to improve this situation, based

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