Organised by: Cranfield UniversityThe management of the product information during its lifecycle is a strategic issue for the industry. In this
paper, a constraints driven framework is proposed to create and manage the product information. The
method proposes to each actor that intervenes on the product life cycle to act on the quote, the development
or the industrialisation of the product. From each phase of the product lifecycle, the extraction, capitalisation
and reuse of fundamental knowledge is coordinated by a generic meta-model. This paper explains this
approach through experiments in three different SMEs of the mechanical industry.Mori Seiki – The Machine Tool Compan
