Abstract
With the increasing concern in the environmental protection and the initiatives in related environmental protection regulations, the principles of green design become not only one of the hottest topics but also the essentials for business. The emerging regulations such as directive on waste electrical and electronic equipment (WEEE), directive on restriction of the use of certain hazardous substances (RoHS) and Kyoto protocol made a great impact on product design and manufacturing. Traditionally, the Product lifecycle management (PLM) system offers an enterprise a platform of information management for all the data related to products and products’ life cycle processes. The PLM system can help all participator in these products’ life cycle processes (e.g., customers, suppliers, and internal staffs) to use all the data derived during the product’s lifecycle. The system can also assist users to manage the information of products effectively and to access information efficiently. PLM system is a good system but not good enough today. Because the quantity of materials information is not enough, we had better to get all the related product data in this industry. So in this paper, we propose an Integrated Green Component Information Management (GCIM) system framework based on the XML file transmitting to improve the quality, cost and time-to market issues of green designs for enterprises. The goals of this paper are listed as follows: 1. To design GCIM system framework and enhance the data model related to the green design of the original PLM system. 2. To define the intermediary schema for schema translation. 3. To develop the schema mapping hub for users translating their own schema to the intermediary schema