Seamless information flow: Our breakthrough contribution, in the long term, is to allow information flow management to go beyond the customer, to close the product lifecycle information loops, and to enable the seamless e-transformation of product lifecycle information to knowledge. We focus on the complete lifecycle of a product. We have developed appropriate technologies, including product lifecycle models, product embedded information devices with associated firmware and software components and tools for decision-making based on data gathered throughout a product lifecycle. This is done to enable and exploit the seamless flow, tracing and updating of information about a product, after its delivery to the customer and up to its final destiny and back to the designer and producer. |