1. Product Life Cycle Support (PLCS) The Information Backbone to transform the Logistics Enterprise
PLCS - PLCSlib
Future STEP architecture meeting Toulouse
June 2014
PLCS TOG

2. PLCSlib - Acknowledgements
Norwegian Defence Logistics Organisation
UK MoD Defence Equipment and Support (DE&S)
Sweden’s FMV
French MoD - SIMMT
Boeing
BAE Systems
Rolls Royce
Black & Rossi
DNV
Eurostep
CRESCENDO Project (EU R&D project)
LOTAR project
RASSC project (UK TSB R&D project)

3. Data Exchange Specification (DEX)
Organization A
Data Exchange Specification (DEX)
Organization B
Business Objects Model
Exchange process
specifies
maps
Templates
Ref. Data
maps
PLCS PSM
uses
specializes
maps
maps
Transformed
System model
System model
PLCS PSM XSD
References
Translator
Translator
1) Why exchange data?
System A
System B
2) What data to be exchanged?
3) How to exchange data?

4. PLCSlib - Summary Integrated set of PLCS information: PLCSlib
Managed by: OASIS PLCS TC:
Developed as an open source Sourceforge project:
Published daily:
Training Videos + online help
Publication environment
OASIS – and any other standard
Packaging
Technology
Adoption of OMG’s SysML
Multiple COTS tool support:
Magicdraw, Topcased, UModel
Improved XML Schema + use of Schematron
Information Model
UML Concept model
Implementation model – PLCS PSM
EXPRESS -> SysML -> XML Schema + Schematron
Derived from AP239 ed2
Aligned with AP242 Business Object Model
EXPRESS  SysML XML Schema + Schematron
OWL based reference data
DEX architecting tools
SysML based templates & DEXs
87 Templates published as OASIS Committee Spec
Ref Data developed

5. PLCSlib as a standard OASIS ISO 10303
Published as OASIS Committee specification (Oct 2013)
ISO 10303
OASIS PLCS PSM derived from ISO ed2
PLCS PSM aligned with AP242 Business Object Model
EXPRESS aligned
XML Schema aligned
Plan to submit PLCS PSM for consideration as the BOM for ISO ed3

6. Reflect current status including PSM and PLCSlib
NATO
AC-327
UID in WG-5
STANAG 4661 edition 2
updated to new layout and now point to specific edition of the ISO standard
Reflect current status including PSM and PLCSlib

7. PLCS PSM based deployments
French MoD, DGA SIMMT (production)
Contracting for information, In-service support
DEXs + Business Object Model + templates + Ref Data
PLCS based data exchange and sharing
Sweden: FMV (production – in development)
Legacy system replacement
Norway: NDLO (production – in-development)
USMC (pilot)
In-service support, Maintenance and repair
BAE Systems Maritime (production – in-development)
In-service support
Complete code generation of OASIS PLCS PSM Templates
PLCS based data exchange and sharing
BAE Systems Land (production)
Support for managing through life information, Provision of support data at acquisition, then in-service support
Honeywell
Technical Data Packs to suppliers
CRESCENDO / MOSSEC (R&T – Standards development)
DEXs + Business Object Model + templates + Ref Data
LOTAR (R&T – Standards development)
RASSC (R&T )

8. PLCS PSM: Status PLCS PSM Model Comprises: Aligned with AP242
Business Objects Templates
Business process
PLCS PSM XSD
PLCS PSM
PLCS PSM: Status
PLCS PSM Model
Comprises:
EXPRESS Model
SysML Model
XML Schema + Schematron Covers scope of AP239 ed2
Aligned with AP242
Now stable and implementations undertaken using off the shelf technology
EXPRESS -> Java
EXPRESS -> .NET
SysML XMI -> Oracle
SysML XMI -> Java
XSD -> Java
XSD -> XSLT
XSD -> .NET

9. Business Objects Templates
Business process
PLCS PSM XSD
PLCS PSM
Templates Status:
Approach been tested by developing business templates and DEXs in a number of domains:
Modelling & Simulation (CRESCENDO / TOICA EU projects)
Requirements management (NDLO/BAE Systems)
Product configuration (NDLO, BAE Systems, SIMMT (French MoD), Sweden’s FMV)
Maintenance / Operational feedback (USMC, SIMMT (French MoD))
Long term archiving (LOTAR)
Number of OASIS level templates have been developed
Implementation
Used in two ways:
Guidance
XSL, Java
Code generation
Java, Oracle .NET

10. One public DEX: Consumption of Life
Business Objects Templates
Business process
PLCS PSM XSD
PLCS PSM
DEX Status
One public DEX: Consumption of Life
As a reference and a proof of approach
Several Business DEXs developed and in deployment
Modelling & Simulation (CRESCENDO / TOICA EU projects)
Requirements management (NDLO/BAE Systems)
Product configuration (NDLO, BAE Systems, SIMMT (French MoD), Sweden’s FMV)
Maintenance feedback (USMC, SIMMT (French MoD))
Long term archiving (LOTAR)

11. Reference Data Domain ref data <domain>-en.owl
Business Objects Templates
Business process
PLCS PSM XSD
PLCS PSM
Reference Data
Domain ref
data
<domain>-en.owl
<domain>-sv.owl
imports
PLCS ref
data
plcs-rdl-en.owl
plcs-rdl-sv.owl
imports
PLCS model
plcs-psm-en.owl
plcs-psm-sv.owl
imports
Meta data
SKOS
Dublin Core

12. Reference Data status PLCS model reference data PLCS reference data
Aligned with PLCS PSM
Terminological definitions
PLCS reference data
Initial set developed and published as OASIS Committee Specification

13. Development & Publishing environment
PLCSlib status
Development & Publishing environment
Available as an open source Sourceforge project:
Published daily:
Training Videos
On line help available
Change Control board in place

14. OASIS PLCS TC policy
All future development be done using SysML based PLCSlib
DEXlib will be deprecated
PLCS PSM and XML Schema is the PLCS exchange format
PLCS PSM, XML Schema and PLCS PSM Reference Data are standardized as OASIS Committee Specifications and will be submitted as for inclusion as part of ISO ed3
SysML based PLCSlib templates, PLCS ref. data and DEXs are standardized as OASIS Committee Specifications
PLCS Inc. (c) 2002

15. PLCS CCB - Mondays at 1500 European time
open to all
Telecon PIN:
 Telecon numbers:
UK:
France: United States: 
Sweden :         SkypeOut 
Agenda:
        PLCS CCB handles Inputs To Improve PLCS raised on Sourceforge    
        
               PLCS PSMmodel               Issues against the PLCS PSM model       
             PLCSlib infrastructure     Issues against the PLCSlib infrastructure      
             PLCS templates               Issues against the PLCSlib templates       
             PLCS Ref. data                 Issues against PLCS reference data       
             PLCS MUguide                 Issues against model usage guides       
             PLCS DEX                        Issues against PLCS DXEs
Group: PLCS Technical Oversight Group SC, Creator: Mr. Tor Arne Irgens

16. Release schedule Maintenance releases
once per year q4
next Maintenance release q4 2014
Minor improvements and corrections to existing PLCS artifacts, e.g.
new templates,
new reference data
bugfixes
Next Harmonization release mid 2016
Focus on harmonization with AP242 BOM - AP 242 e2
Changes to PLCS Model, e.g new blocks
Knock on changes to templates
Current plan to publish as part of AP239 ed3 mid 2016

17. Background

18. ISO 10303-239 ed2 Published as a full ISO standard 2012
Small increase in scope
Greater compatibility with Systems Engineering and PLM ISO standards
Adds: Risk, Verification & Validation, better effectivity / baselining
Model subsequently evolved to PLCS PSM and aligned with AP242 BOM

19. ISO 10303-239 ed2 Summary of changes from ed1
Used latest editions of modules
Extended Selects
Added:
System / non abstract Product
Analysis
Validation & verification
Risk
Created:
Collection
Product Environment
Same-as
Conditional effectivity
Identification relations
Modified:
Message
Observation
Resources
Product category – removed from modules
Justification – added assumption

20. PLCSlib http://www.plcs.org/plcslib/plcslib/
The PLCSlib repository of DEXs and their supporting components is organized as follows:
Contexts: An index of all the Contexts; A Context identifies a domain or business purpose area for which DEXs are defined;
DEXs: An index of all the DEXs; A DEX identifies and documents a subset of the ISO (PLCS) information model required for a specific business purpose;
Templates: An index of all the Templates; The usage of the PLCS information model by a DEX is defined through templates. The templates provide a precise specification of how the model is used to represent a given concept;
Model Usage Guides: An index of all the Model Usage Guides; Model Usage Guides provide guidance on how the information model and templates should be used.
Reference data: An index of the Reference Data used by the DEXs; Reference data provides a tailorable vocabulary that adds business specific semantics to the information model.
Concept model: A high level model of the main concepts used in ISO It is intended to be used to introduce on a single page the scope that PLCS addresses.
Activity model: The ISO Activity Model that illustrates the business activities that are supported by ISO ;
PLCS PSM: The PLCS Platform Specific Model (PLCS PSM) that is used as the data exchange form for all DEXs. The PLCS PSM is a SysML model;
NOTE For a summary of these components and inter relationships, see: PLCS technical overview.