Intelligent Product: Mobile Agent Architecture Integrating the End of Life Cycle (EOL) For minimizing the lunch phase PLM

TL;DR

This paper proposes an intelligent mobile agent architecture that integrates end-of-life management to optimize product lifecycle processes and enhance customer involvement, focusing on reducing launch time and improving recycling coordination.

Contribution

It introduces a novel mobile agent-based framework leveraging product embedded device identification to better manage the end-of-life phase of products.

Findings

Reduced product launch phase through mobile agent coordination

Enhanced customer involvement in product lifecycle management

Improved recycling and end-of-life process efficiency

Abstract

To improve the increasingly demands products that are customized, all business activities performed along the product life cycle must be coordinated and efficiently managed along the extended enterprise. For this, enterprise had wanted to retain control over the whole product lifecycle especially when the product is in use/recycling (End Of Life phase). Although there have been many previous research works about product lifecycle management in the beginning of life (BOL) and middle of life (MOL) phases, few addressed the end of life (EOL) phase, in particular, when the product is at the customers. In this paper, based on product embedded device identification (PEID) and mobile agent technologies, and with the advent of the development of the "intelligent products", we will try to improve innovation: (a) by minimize the lunch phase, (b) and the involvement of the customer in product lifecycle.