Concurrent versioning principles for collaboration: towards PLM for hardware and software data management. (1st January 2014)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Bricogne, Matthieu; Rivest, Louis; Troussier, Nadège; Eynard, Benoît
• Is Part Of: International journal of product lifecycle management. Volume 7:Number 1(2014)
• Page Start: 17
• Page End: 37
• Publication Date: 2014-01-01
• Subjects: multi-domain system integration -- hardware and software data management -- product lifecycle management -- PLM -- application lifecycle management -- ALM -- version control -- diff -- merge -- agile design methods -- engineering change management; Product life cycle -- Periodicals; 658.56
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1743-5110

Abstract

The change management (CM) and version control mechanisms used in the mechanical and software domains are presented in the product lifecycle management (PLM) and application lifecycle management (ALM) approaches, respectively. Based on their comparison, this paper discusses branching/merging concepts and utilises them to propose an evolution of the product data management (PDM) functions of PLM, thereby allowing PLM to become a collaborative platform common to software and hardware engineers. This evolution is an opportunity to develop a three-way merge tool for CAD documents. Recent works on model-merging techniques from the software development domain are evaluated in the process.