Tools for decentralized product lifecycle management

Abstract

The concept of product life cycle evolves with the development of technology. PLM tools provide information support for products at all stages of the life cycle. The maintenance and repair system, as a resource-intensive component of the life cycle, has great potential for increasing economic efficiency through the introduction of a decentralized resource management system. The article shows how this problem is solved by the introduction of decentralized technologies that work in real time: distributed artificial intelligence technologies; multi-agent systems; blockchain. Similar solutions are also applicable to product configuration management processes. It has been proven that the use of blockchain technology makes it possible to track parameters about the load and condition of goods at all stages of the life cycle, reduce the number of intermediaries and optimize the cost of the life cycle of goods as a whole.