Product Documentation Management Through REST-Based Web Service
Innovation is a creative process strongly associated with development and deployment of new products. This is essential in the global economy of today for the success and sustainability of companies. Collaboration between those involved in new product dev
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Product Documentation Management Through REST-Based Web Service Filipe Rocha, Maria Leonilde R. Varela, and Sı´lvio Carmo-Silva
Abstract Innovation is a creative process strongly associated with development and deployment of new products. This is essential in the global economy of today for the success and sustainability of companies. Collaboration between those involved in new product development (NPD) is an important requisite for product development and innovation. New product development involves not only the company and customers but also suppliers, free lancers and other stakeholders. Strong collaboration and agile communication among all are critical requirements for product development success. This is due to the highly competitive world economy we live in nowadays and also because data and relevant information that needs to be shared is distributed over networks of resources and users. Hence, web-based applications, decentralized repositories and databases are used to store and manage product and process development information as well as NPD stakeholders’ interaction. Thus, for meeting today’s new product development requirements Internet based collaborative tools and services must be applied. Web services are important assets in product development, helping the integration of data and knowledge bases and also for process and application interactions. This paper reports on a web services based research work focused on the development of a document-oriented web-based application for product development using Apache CouchDB technology and REST web services. The application seeks the managing of product and process information, as well as documentation generation, throughout the product development process cycle in an Internet based collaborative environment. An additional important function addressed deals with product development history. Keywords Web services • Product information • Document • Management • CouchDB • REST
F. Rocha • M.L.R. Varela (*) • S. Carmo-Silva Department of Production and Systems, School of Engineering, University of Minho, Azure´m Campus, 4800-058 Guimara˜es, Portugal e-mail: [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected] A. Madureira et al. (eds.), Computational Intelligence and Decision Making: Trends and 179 Applications, Intelligent Systems, Control and Automation: Science and Engineering 61, DOI 10.1007/978-94-007-4722-7_17, # Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2013
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Introduction
Innovation is closely associated with new product development (NPD). This is an activity that can benefit very much from collaboration between stakeholders involved. This can be enhanced through the use of agile tools and technology for efficient and fast information sharing and by carrying out of collaboration tasks. Such tools and technology are mostly available through the Internet. In fact, nowadays the Internet can be considered the best channel for collaboration and knowledge exchange and the path for companies’ sustainability and compe
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