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Author(s): Edward Barkmeyer, Neil Christopher, Shaw Feng, James Fowler, Simon Frechette, Albert Jones, Kevin Jurrens, Charles McLean, Mike Pratt, Harry A. Scott, M. K. Senehi, Ram Sriram and Evan Wallace
Publication date: January 1997
Citation: Edward Barkmeyer, Neil Christopher, Shaw Feng, James Fowler, Simon Frechette, Albert Jones, Kevin Jurrens, Charles McLean, Mike Pratt, Harry A. Scott, M. K. Senehi, Ram Sriram and Evan Wallace: "SIMA Reference Architecture Part I: Activity Models," NISTIR 5939, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, MD, 1997.
Key words: product realization process, manufacturing software, activity models, CIM architecture, software interfaces, CIM framework
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Abstract:
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This report describes the activities and information flows
inherent in the "product realization process" for discrete
electro-mechanical parts and products. That is, it describes
the technical functions which must be performed to take a
part/product from conception through production. Because of the
spectrum of parts and processes involved, the elaboration of
these activities and flows is at a fairly high level of
abstraction, using IDEF0 as the formal modelling language.
The purpose of this report is to provide the basis for a
"reference architecture", describing the functions and
relationships of software systems in the product realization
process, and the nature of the information interfaces needed
among those systems. It is intended that the continuation of
the work will produce a report defining the systems architecture
(Part 2) and many separate reports defining particular
information interfaces in detail. The goal of the work is to
have some standard form of those interfaces specified and
implemented by commercial manufacturing software products, so
that such products will work together "off-the-shelf", and thus
the delivery of enhanced software capabilities to the
manufacturing user may be significantly accelerated.
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