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D. Gerhard:
"Semantic Technologies in PLM - Vision, Requirements, Approaches";
Keynote Lecture: 17. Internationales Hochtechnologiesymposium - Technologische Innovationen in der Produktentwicklung, Piracicaba (invited); 2012-10-01 - 2012-10-05; in: "Tagungsband 17. Internationales Hochtechnologiesymposium - Technologische Innovationen in der Produktentwicklung", (2012), 11 pages.

The paper describes research efforts to address major problems of the complete process of bringing a new product or service to market from an IT perspective and especially focusing on software solutions for Product Lifecycle Management (PLM). Today´s major challenges are the support of globally distributed and multi-disciplinary teams and enterprise knowledge management. Essential building block for new approaches to cope with these challenges is the use of semantic technologies for supporting IT environments. There are different aspects to be considered, integration of social software and community development in the context of open innovation and crowd sourcing as well as context driven enrichment of data and adaptive application integration. The aim is to give a strategic view of usage and integration of supportive technologies and tools. This contribution consists of a systematic collection of the requirements resulting from today´s challenges and introduces an approach to future IT working environment for engineers. Furthermore, the paper shows how these technologies can contribute to more individual and flexible engineering application integration and knowledge management and reflects on data and process security issues.

The paper describes research efforts to address major problems of the complete process of bringing a new product or service to market from an IT perspective and especially focusing on software solutions for Product Lifecycle Management (PLM). Today´s major challenges are the support of globally distributed and multi-disciplinary teams and enterprise knowledge management. Essential building block for new approaches to cope with these challenges is the use of semantic technologies for supporting IT environments. There are different aspects to be considered, integration of social software and community development in the context of open innovation and crowd sourcing as well as context driven enrichment of data and adaptive application integration. The aim is to give a strategic view of usage and integration of supportive technologies and tools. This contribution consists of a systematic collection of the requirements resulting from today´s challenges and introduces an approach to future IT working environment for engineers. Furthermore, the paper shows how these technologies can contribute to more individual and flexible engineering application integration and knowledge management and reflects on data and process security issues.

CAD, ecodesign, PDM, product development, Semantic Technologies