Title:A Lightweight Approach to Manage Engineering Parameters in Mechatronic Design ProcessesAuthor(s):Lukas Weingartner, Peter Hehenberger, Michael Friedl, Andreas Kellner, Stefan Boschert, Roland RosenAbstract:In mechatronic design processes the exchange of information between stakeholders from different disciplines is essential to enable simultaneous engineering and a successful integration of domain specific subsystems. Although there is a comprehensive range of methodologies and tools to support collaboration, intentions to implement a central data management platform covering all stakeholders often do not succeed. Reasons are the heterogeneous model landscape, the variety of stand-alone authoring tools, departments’, disciplines’ or companies’ boundaries and a lack of flexibility of established solutions regarding the support of unpredictable and quickly changing design processes. This paper focuses on the management of individual parameters and parameter instances (values) within a multi-disciplinary development team. The presented lightweight approach can extend existing methods and data management infrastructure by adding functionalities to provide access to individual parameters using a dedicated database. The procedure is shown by the example of a technical mechanism.Booktitle:Product Lifecycle Management for Digital Transformation of IndustriesPublisher:SpringerEditor(s):Ramy Harik, Louis Rivest, Alain Bernard, Benoit Eynard, Abdelaziz BourasISBN:978-3-319-54660-5Page Reference:page 79-88, 10 page(s)Publishing:3/2017Series:IFIP Advances in Information and Communication TechnologyVolume:492