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Design Patterns for Managing Product Life Cycle Information.

The article discusses the use of design patterns for managing product life cycle information. Efforts to make information about products easily accessible during a product's entire lifetime have created an environment that often leads to information overflow in the downstream supply chain. The autho...

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Published in:Communications of the ACM Vol. 50; no. 6; pp. 75 - 80
Main Authors: Främling, Kary, Ala-Risku, Timo, Kärkkäinen, Mikko, Holmström, Jan
Format: Article
Published: Association for Computing Machinery Jun2007
Subjects:
Computer software
Computer programming
Inventory control
Industrial procurement
Business logistics
Object-oriented databases
Product life cycle
Product management
Online Access:View this record in EBSCOhost
Summary:The article discusses the use of design patterns for managing product life cycle information. Efforts to make information about products easily accessible during a product's entire lifetime have created an environment that often leads to information overflow in the downstream supply chain. The authors examine object-oriented programming as method of creating computer software that can last longer, as well as the effects of the Internet on the ability to make product information available at all times.