Contributions to advance Product Data Management Systems (PDMs): Towards Flexible Graphical User Interface and Semantic Oriented Search for Web based PDMs

This book is mainly a research monograph discussing "Product Data Management (PDM)". Going into the details; the presented research work describes the contributions of PDM Systems toward industry in improving the quality of products by providing an excellent way of organizational technical data management. The presented research also highlights some areas of available PDM Systems, can be improved by the use of some available information and technologies belonging to the fields of Semantic Web, Human Computer Interaction and Natural Language Processing. To contribute in the advancement of PDM Systems, benefiting from available domain oriented technologies, an approach is proposed. Describing the proposition in detail the main concept and developed prototype is also presented in this book.