Closed-Loop Product Life Cycle Management : Using Smart Embedded Systems

The PROMISE technologies are a new type of “Closed-Loop Product Life Cycle Management (PLM) using Smart Embedded Systems,” which allow tracking of product information at all times and in any location around the world.

This new closed-loop PLM—developed and validated in the Intelligent Manufacturing Systems (IMS) project PROMISE—enables product users, maintainers, and manufacturers to manage the life cycle information of their products seamlessly over all life cycle phases.

Better understanding of product life cycles leads to process improvements and to reduced total product costs; better product quality; improved supply chain efficiency; and better rebuilding and recycling choices. This book provides industrial users, as well as the broad R&D community with an understanding of the principles behind the PROMISE technologies, their successful implementation in the PROMISE demonstrators, and their enormous potential to improve competitive advantage across the industrial spectrum.

Several PROMISE project partners from countries around the world have contributed to the production of this unique book and O3neida thanks them, one and all, for their strong collaboration in producing this excellent compendium and for their continuing contribution to product life cycle information management.

In partnership with O3neida, this volume is the latest in a series of books on automation technologies that was introduced in 2008 when the first book, IEC 61499 Function Blocks for Embedded and Distributed Control Systems Design, by Dr. Valeriy Vyatkin, was published.

Preface
Acknowledgements
List of Figures
List of Tables

Chapter 1 : Introduction
Chapter 2 : Objectives, Principles, and Cornerstones

Chapter 3 : PROMISE Technologies
Section 3.1 : PROMISE System Architecture PROMISE architecture concepts
Section 3.2 : Product Embedded Information Device (PEID)
Section 3.3 : Middleware
Section 3.4 : Product Data and Knowledge Management (PDKM)
Section 3.5 : Decision Support System (DSS)
Section 3.6 : Integrated Design Support
Section 3.7 : Standardization
Section 3.8 : Identifying and Evaluating the PROMISE Demonstrators’ Business Effects

Chapter 4 : PROMISE Demonstrators.

Section 4.1 : Demonstrators Covering Multiple Life Cycle Phases
Sub-Section 4.1.1 : Product Quality Evaluation Based on Product Life Cycle Modelling with Disturbances
Sub-Section 4.1.2 : Tracking of Material from Receipt, Processing to Storage and Shipping, Including Customer Claim Tracking

Section 4.2 : Beginning of Life Demonstrators
Sub-Section 4.2.1 : Transformation of Field Data into DfX Knowledge
Sub-Section 4.2.2 : Adaptive Production

Section 4.3 : Middle of Life Demonstrators
Sub-Section 4.3.1 : Predictive Maintenance for Trucks
Sub-Section 4.3.2 : Predictive Maintenance for Machine Tools
Sub-Section 4.3.3 : Smart Bridge Health Monitoring and Diagnostics

Section 4.4 : End of Life Demonstrators
Sub-Section 4.4.1 : Tracking and Tracing of Products for Recycling
Sub-Section 4.4.2 : Recycling of Plastic Consumer Durable Products

Chapter 5 : Benefits of Using PROMISE Technologies

Index