Information Infrastructure to Promote Effective Utilization of Element Technologies for Supporting Life Cycle Engineering

This study has proposed a framework to promote sustainable technology based on a concept of LCE. Getting together a few components for implementation by virtue of Web service technologies, we have provided a Web-based prototype system and shown its prospects. Especially, we intended to facilitate publishing user’s own sub-model or process model and registering them for mutual usage via Web service broker. For this purpose, we revise the foregoing XML format of PLCM and introduced XML database and XML linking tools. Finally, through a case study applied to PE sheet for agricultural use, we illustrated the benefits of the developed collaborative environment for supporting decision making on LCE.