Building Information Modeling

23D Engineering and Lifecycle Management of Manufactured Products

Benoît EYNARD^1,2, Alexandre DURUPT¹, Matthieu BRICOGNE^1,3 and Julien LE DUIGOU¹

¹Roberval, Université technologique de Compiègne, France

²Inetum, Meudon, France

³Groupement francophone des utilisateurs de Catia, Paris, France

2.1. Introduction

Since the 2000s, 3D modeling and product lifecycle management (PLM) have profoundly changed the way systems and manufactured products are designed, industrialized and mass-produced (Le Duigou et al. 2011; Eynard et al. 2014). This chapter re-examines some of the key elements that structure today’s so-called “integrated design“approaches and attempts to offer perspectives for the transfer and adoption of best practices, from the manufacturing industry to the construction and building sector.

This chapter successively addresses the concepts of digital mock-up, product lifecycle management, the role of product modeling and associated standards, collaborative and multidisciplinary design and certain developments in practices related to the deployment of systems engineering, as well as the beginnings of the application of “agility” principles to project management.

2.2. Digital mock-up

2.2.1. How to define a digital mock-up

Proposed in the 1990s by the European AIT – DMU BP (Advanced Information Technology in Design and Manufacturing – Digital Mock-Up Business Process) project consortium, a digital mock-up is defined as follows: “an extended digital representation of the product ...