Product data management

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The product data management ( PDM ) stores and manages product-defining, representing and presenting data as a result of product development and presents them in subsequent phases of the product life cycle are available. This work is based on an integrated product model . Furthermore, the support of product development through suitable methods based on process models is to be assigned to PDM. In addition to PDM, product information management (PIM) is developing , which specializes in providing product information for various output media, especially in the commercial environment and sales.

Before the term product data management (PDM) became common, engineering data management (EDM) was the common term in the 1980s .

A PDM system is part of the company information and coordination system. It implements the methods and rules of product data management. PDM systems contain program interfaces to CAx software, ERP software, software of its own class, etc. a. They are therefore not to be understood as monolithic application systems, but rather as the core of a PDM solution. Not all methods and / or rules of PDM are necessarily made available by a PDM application system. Rather, systems of the CAx class or systems of document management or workflow management can provide such functions. The ISO 10303 ( STEP ) series of standards has largely established itself as the standard for the exchange of data between the system classes involved and the description of product models .

The PDM systems on the market have developed from three different directions:

CAD systems can be seen as the origin of PDM. The discipline arose largely from problems of CAD model and drawing management, caused by the dramatic increase in the amount of product data in connection with the introduction of these systems. Furthermore, the increasing product complexity led to a higher degree of networking of the product data, so that finding new concepts for product data management became urgently necessary.

The introduction of a PDM solution should make it possible to increase the quality of product development and to reduce the time and costs of product development. With the aim of a continuous flow of information, these advantages should be passed on to the downstream organizational units involved in the product life cycle. The result of this way of working should be the seamless reproducibility of work statuses (configurations) of a product.

PDM systems are generally industry / company-specific.

literature

  • Volker Arnold, Hendrik Dettmering, Torsten Engel, Andreas Karcher: Mastering Product Lifecycle Management. A user manual for medium-sized companies . Springer, Berlin 2005, ISBN 3-540-22997-3 .
  • Eigner, Martin, model-based virtual product development , Springer Verlag, Berlin, 2014
  • Martin Eigner, Ralph Stelzer : Product Lifecycle Management: A Guide for Product Development and Life Cycle Management . 2nd Edition. Springer, Berlin 2009, ISBN 978-3-540-44373-5 .
  • Ulrich Sendler, Volker Wawer: CAD and PDM - process optimization through integration . Hanser, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-446-41202-6 .
  • Ulrich Sendler, Volker Wawer: From PDM to PLM - process optimization through integration . 3. Edition. Hanser, Munich 2011, ISBN 978-3-446-42731-0 .