The development of a computer-based product definition for artillery products

Abstract

Any company that is involved in manufacturing, must be able to tell the exact difference between any two products of the same family. This is necessary to enable such a company to support these products during the total life cycle, and becomes possible if the product definition is kept under configuration control. Traditionally, paper copies of all the specifications and drawings etc., were kept under configuration and the real electronic source information was not. The objective of this system is to maintain the electronic source data for every product. This system enables the product developers to access the total product definition from a Windows based personal computer. The genuine source data is available, not only paper copies. At the same time , the logistic, functional and manufacturing definitions can be accessed in a user friendly way.