Autor: Jürgen Angele

Shorter times to market determine the competitiveness of companies in all industries. The necessary approaches to improvement of industrial processes have to focus on the optimisation of the entire product lifecycle. The resulting management and organisational approach is called PLM. The preliminary integration of all data along the lifecycle can only be handled by semantic technologies. In addition, the introduced approach brings sufficient intelligence to capture enterprise knowledge and effective task support for employees.

Speed and cost reduction are plainly the factors of success in global competition. But more and more, the increasing amount of information aggravates the efficient access and finding of information from different systems. Semantic technologies provide convincing solutions by integration of process related knowledge models. Field-tested applications from areas like information retrieval, product development and online consulting illustrate further areas of application.