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A Visual Concept Navigation Tool for Engineering Design and Open-source Product Lifecycle Management (OPLM)

The Final Thesis Report is Downloadable Here

Ryerson University, Toronto, Ontario Canada
September 2004 – August 2006

Modern computers give designers unprecedented information and data management capabilities, but they cannot yet manage the qualitative and sometimes vague elements of early design. The navigator's purpose is to connect the information access capabilities of computers with the creative abilities of the designer. Visualization is the key because it enables the highest "density" communication between these two types of processors.

This is not just a question of data management, but one of articulating knowledge in a way that leads to better planning, problem solving and decisionmaking. To this end, the OPLM project will develop new visual interfaces to augment the connection between the user's understanding of the product and the information systems that support product development.

The OPLM navigator will be a means to sample the shape of information and to encode relevant aspects of that shape into a meaningful visualisation. As the designer interacts with that visualisation, the tool will capture the input by reversing the process and applying the changes to stored information.

This research will progress through the investigation of the shape, encoding, relevance and interaction.

See the Extended introduction for more information on OPLM and PLM in general

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Site Sections

OPLM Navigator design – The key to effective interaction with PLM information
- Navigator PDS
- Navigator requirements
  - Overall
  - Software System
  - Paper System
- Project plan
Testing visualizations
- [Navigator prototype]
  - Tcl map is a preliminary concept mapping tool that will be the foundation of the Design schematics project as well as the OPLM project.
- Navigator current update needs updating – Notes and Summary on the current OPLM Navigator concepts.
Pure research – Ideas from publications and other litterature
- References page
- the preliminary plm study
Applied research
Column c – Tricks and ideas that don't have a place yet in the overall work

Documents

Direct links to current important documents on the project

Progress Summary for beginning of September (MS word document)
Project Plan from end of August
The Final Thesis Report is Downloadable Here
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