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A framework for sharing product information across enterprises

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Collaborative product commerce (CPC) is a newly emerging technology to support inter-enterprise collaboration through the product life-cycle. From the point of view of information technology, CPC is a software technology to integrate products, processes and resources of different enterprises using web technologies. In this paper, we propose a framework for integrating product information across enterprises, which is being developed by the Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (ETRI) as a part of a CPC project. The product metadata represented by an XML schema, which is compatible with the ISO STEP PDM (product Data Management) schema standard, is presented to semantically and schematically integrate distributed product information. Web services technologies are discussed to support the interoperability of application systems related to the product development, such as computer-aided design (CAD) and PDM, where most of these applications run in a distributed environment. Finally, we implement the framework to integrate distributed product information and application systems.

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  1. Software Robot Research Team, Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (ETRI), 161 Kajong-Dong, Yusong-Gu, 305-350, South Korea

    Hyun Kim, Hyung-Sun Kim, Joo-Haeng Lee & Jin-Mi Jung

  2. Department of Industrial Engineering, Chonnam National University, Korea

    Jae Yeol Lee

  3. Department of Industrial Systems Engineering, Gyeongsang National University, Korea

    Nam-Chul Do

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Kim, H., Kim, HS., Lee, JH. et al. A framework for sharing product information across enterprises. Int J Adv Manuf Technol 27, 610–618 (2006). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00170-004-2222-4

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