Extension of an ERP System Based on a Unified Feature Framework

• Author / Creator

  Wei,Jingxing

• Customer-oriented manufacturing demands that engineering design and production planning are fully integrated. This study proposes a generic feature association method and a detailed framework for the implementation of an advanced Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system that can unify product and process models in order to fulfill customer orders with small batch and high variation production nature. A conceptual solution is introduced for the information integration between design configuration features and manufacturing process features. To achieve this, three feature classes, customer feature, capacity feature and welding feature are suggested. Specific effort has been spent to model welding features which are currently not well studied. With the associative integration between product design and process feature domains, a preliminary order acceptance and scheduling prototype system has been implemented within an ERP order management system, and its semantic model is demonstrated within a unified and multi-facet feature framework.

• Subjects / Keywords

  • OAS
  • ERP
  • Feature-based

• Graduation date

  Spring 2014

• Type of Item

  Thesis

• Degree

  Master of Science

• DOI

  https://doi.org/10.7939/R3M09V

• License

  This thesis is made available by the University of Alberta Libraries with permission of the copyright owner solely for non-commercial purposes. This thesis, or any portion thereof, may not otherwise be copied or reproduced without the written consent of the copyright owner, except to the extent permitted by Canadian copyright law.