Published online by Cambridge University Press: 27 July 2021
Both industry and science point out the need to integrate PLM and ALM since products evolve from mechatronic to smart products. This paper investigates data management tasks fulfilled when creating or improving design. Particularly, the differences and commonalities in design evolution management of the software and hardware disciplines are considered.
This paper introduces a beta version of a hash function based tool, applying the software management mechanism on mechanical revision management.