... function form behavior UML The new generation of product modeling concepts is intended to support product lifecycle management (PLM) during all stages of product life. The initial objective of the work presented here was to provide a common data model among in-house projects at NIST...

...-of relationships with the planet gear pins; the output shaft is not shown since it is not directly involved in the current assembly relationship. Note that the part-of relationships are actually stored in the main hierarchy of the proposed UML model. As mentioned above, the artifact associations are instances...