Product lifecycle management with provenance management and virtual models: an industrial use-case study

Abstract

Saving and managing virtual models’ provenance information (models’ history) can increase the level of reusability of those models. This paper describes a provenance management system (PMS) that has been developed based on an industrial case study.The product lifecycle management (PLM) system, as a main data management system, is responsible for receiving virtual models and their related data from Computer-Aided technologies (CAx) and providing this information for the PMS. In this paper, the management of discrete event simulation data with the PLM system will be demonstrated as the first link of provenance data management chain (CAx-PLM-PMS).