Product Data Management System Research Articles

Integration of PDM and ERP systems within a unified information space of an enterprise

This article focuses on the research on the complex processes of joint integration of PDM and ERP systems. The relevance of introducing an integrated system within a single information space is justified. The main challenges of systems integration under a unified automation approach are described, including production planning and better management of production data. To successfully solve such problems ERP system needs to operate a certain amount of reference data, without which the production plan will be ineffective or impossible. Due to the fact that such data is often generated and stored in the product data management systems, it becomes necessary to provide data exchange between ERP and PDM systems. A number of key issues relating to the development and establishment of systems are determined. The functions of ERP and PDM systems that require a creation of an interaction interface between them are allocated and described. In conclusion, the positive trends, achievable through integration are reviewed. Keywords:-integration, Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Product Data Management (PDM), Unified Information Space (UIS), Continuous Acquisition and Life-cycle Support (CALS).

Implementation of Web Based Manufacturing Process Planning Workflow in a Pressure Die Casting Industry

Today’s manufacturing industry requires product data management system (PDM) for efficient product development and production. Manufacturing industries must deal with competition, time to market, reduction of the cost of doing business, and rapid development of new services and products. To address these requirements industries must constantly reconsider and optimize the way they do business and change their systems and applications to support evolving business processes. In the part of the PDM solution, workflow management system facilitates creating and executing workflow and controlling, monitoring, optimizing and supporting business processes. This paper proposes an approach to implement web based manufacturing process planning workflow in a pressure die casting industry to overcome the bottleneck associated with the workflow of the company. The advantage of this work is its efficiency and flexibility of data management and the business processes are explicitly defined. Manufacturing process planning workflow has been implemented to support the business process of the pressure die casting industry.

Use of Drawings Archive for Design Process

The drawings archive of a company is an important font of information that could be used during the design process. In fact, it is a collection of known and proven solutions to design problems and, also, the drawings include a variety of information useful to design such as physical principles to achieve a function or solutions of particular machine design problems. The use of these data is however conditioned by easiness of access to the information. Normally, the drawings archive is not structured in a useful manner for the design and the retrieve of the information contained requires effort and time that are not often available to the designer. The use of database systems and informatics tools, as Product Data Management (PDM) or Product Life-cycle Management (PLM) systems, can allow company to add more attributes to the drawing during its storage, allowing a different access to the information. This work proposes an example about the organization of the information based on the functional structure of a product. The organization proposed was also used to catalogue the data stored in relation to the standards required to the product. This to demonstrate how much information is hided into the historical archives of a company and how much it could be useful during the design process.

Research of PDM System Based on Solid Edge Insight

Discuss the design of product data management (PDM) system based on Solid Edge Insight: Managed the different user roles by using the Windows SharePoint Services 3.0; Informed file changes to related staff timely by mail server to achieve the collaborative work between different designers that greatly improved design efficiency; Realized online browsing the Solid Edge files and their properties and BOM list via web part provided by the Insight, which made the system more humanized and visualization; Realized document libraries search by using its search view; Introduced the secure sockets layer (SSL) to encrypt network transmission system, which made the system safer and more reliable. Practice results show that this PDM system is able to fulfill the demand of online browsing and managing CAD products or related documents in minor enterprises.

Manufacturability of Sheet Metal Design with the Help of Product Data Management (PDM)

In the today’s industry the sheet metal design plays a huge role, it has been said that almost the half of the designing is concentrating to sheet metals. But the lack of knowledge of the typical sheet metal aspects and basic rules of sheet metal designing, has led in to situation where more and more products are poor designed. This automatically leads to situation that the products are not manufacturing friendly. Designing time is shortening year after year, so the pressure to design the part as fast as possible is huge. Unfortunately all the design information and the design intent is processed and filtered to be fit for the Product Data Management (PDM) system. As the PDM was firstly designed to be used only for the storage base for the design drawings and other data; the feature-information and design intent is lost. This paper deals with two distinct yet interlinked themes. The first theme is the new requirements set for the new Product (Life-time) Information systems that can save the product information and design intent. And the second theme is the modern, light-weight and updatable product-services that allow the manufacturability to be ensured before product realization. With the help of novel product-service such as Design Manufacturing and Assembly (DFMA) for sheet metal industry designers will able to design in shorter time manufacture friendly sheet metal products.

Analysis on Critical Factors for PDM Success Implementation in Chinese Tobacco Industry Enterprise

Product data management (PDM) has been widely used to represent an advanced management ideas and methods, to bring significant changes to the enterprise product management. In this paper, describes the core idea of the PDM system and the challenges for the implementation in tobacco industry enterprise. Then in accordance with the implementation of PDM system, analysis and summarizes the critical factors affecting the implementation of the project both in management and technology aspects for tobacco industry enterprise, and to provide help for the enterprises follow-up the implementation of PDM system.

Design and Implementation of the Critical Functions in IETM System

ETM system is a complex product information management system based on JSP and MySQL. It contains three subsystems: product management system, material management system and IETM making system. This paper first introduces the IETM system, then focuses on the key techniques involved in the management process including product information management, the association between a product and its sub-products, the product tree caused by a damaged product, the product tree used to find the cause of failure, the performance table management, the conversion technology from product information data to a S10000D document, the conversion technology from S1000D documents to a Word document and the word name repetitive judgment.

Meat Pigeon Production Management Information System

A meat pigeon production management information system was developed. The system can carry through precision management for meat pigeon, which adopts RFID, computers and other IT technologies. Pigeon production management information system include two parts: breeding information collection handheld terminals and pigeon management information software system. The breeding information collection handheld terminal can collect production information of breeder pigeon. Breeding information collection terminals include electronic tag reader module, database storage module and human-machine interaction module. The pigeon management information software system can storage and statistics the data that collected by information collection terminal and can also generate standard breeder production record report for workers.

Research on Construction of Working Platform of R&D Dynamic Alliance Featured by Networking Synergy for Complex Products

The R&D of complex product has characteristics like complex structure, high reliability requirements, long cycle, big investments, and high degree of coordination among subjects. Base on this and from hierarchical model and function model, the paper put forward a networking synergy collaborative work platform oriented to different stages, different goals and different users and integrated with individuation and diversification. From the Angle of hierarchical model, the platform is divided into base layer, service layer, application layer, presentation layer,user layer and extension layer six layers. From the Angle of function model, the platform includes the product data management system, product technology aided design system, intellectual equity management system, project management system and aided analysis software five systems. This platform can be applied to complex product dynamic alliance networked R&D, shorten the product development cycle, and improve the work efficiency.

Developing a product data model using the STEP PDM schema for integrating specifications of technical services

Life-cycle-oriented technical services are product-centric customer supports that aim to maximise product performance over its life cycle. This article proposes an extended product data model that can specify technical services, taking into account the product design and manufacturing process supported as integrated product life-cycle data. This integration allows the proposed model to evaluate the cost or environmental effects of products from the view of the product life cycle. The model specifies the life-cycle-oriented technical services by extending the STEP PDM schema, a widely implemented international standard for product data management (PDM). It helps manufacturers to integrate their technical services with current product and process specifications by using their existing PDM systems. A design information system based on a commercial PDM system is implemented based on the proposed product data model, and a set of application examples illustrates the effectiveness of the model for specifying life-cycle-oriented technical services.

Product Development Integration Techniques and System Based on CAx and Knowledge Management

Knowledge has become a key economic resource of enterprise and to become even only source of competitive advantage. With the structure of the product more and more complicated, function more and more incline to integration and compounding, modern product design is one base on knowledge. Knowledge-based integrated information system, to support knowledge management and technology innovation, is the development trends of information integration system. The integration information of computer aided technology (CAx) was analysed. A data structure of integration product model base on relation database was introduced. Knowledge-based integration system for product development was drawn out. It is a system base on product data management system and knowledge management system. This system framework used synthetically information technology and advanced manufacture technique, and realized product speedy and innovation design.

PDM 데이터베이스로부터 핵심성과지표를 추출하기 위한 정보 시스템 아키텍쳐

The current manufacturers have generated tremendous amount of digitized product data to efficiently share and exchange it with other stakeholders or various software systems for product development. The digitized product data is a valuable asset for manufacturers, and has a potential to support high level strategic decision makings needed at many stages in product development. However, the lack of studies on extraction of key performance indicators(KPIs) from product data management(PDM) databases has prohibited manufacturers to use the product data to support the decision makings. Therefore this paper examines a possibility of an architecture that supports KPIs for evaluation of product development performances, by applying multidimensional product data model and on-line analytic processing(OLAP) to operational databases of product data management. To validate the architecture, the paper provides a prototype product data management system and OLAP applications that implement the multidimensional product data model and analytic processing.

Product analysis automation for digital MRO based on intelligent 3D data acquisition

3D data acquisition technologies are increasingly used in the area of maintenance, repair and overhaul (MRO) of long-life technical systems and industrial plants. Application fields are measuring, reengineering and reproduction of disassembled parts. Fraunhofer IPK is developing a reverse engineering process for provision of 3D product models based on 3D scans of complete assemblies to save disassembly time and to support change management and reengineering tasks. This paper depicts results of IPK's data processing approaches for automated separation and identification of single parts in 3D assembly scans as well as for mapping of assembly structures in product data management systems.

Automation of QFD an e-Learning Tool for Product Development with an Integrated Product Data Management Platform in e-Business

Quality Function Deployment (QFD) initially evolved from manufacturing organizations, but over the time has found applications in services of various kinds. QFD falls under the six strategies for new product development, notably, design for six sigma, stage-gate model, flexible product development, new concept development model, user-centered design. The evolution of the QFD concept preceded the overwhelming use of the computer in daily business conduct. As the computer continues to gain momentum as a central hub for daily business transactions, there is need to speed up the development of systems that are centered on the modern computer world. This paper shows a software development process for QFD automation. The automation is integrated within a Product Data Management (PDM) platform. The motivation towards this effort is to facilitate in-class demonstrations of the QFD methodology and also enable same paced development of product development systems. Product development systems such as PDM, Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) systems need to be intertwined with tools that enhance the development effort. Software based on VB 2005 was developed that allows interaction with the user through a graphical interface. The software automatically constructs Houses of Quality (HoQ) to the fourth level. A Microsoft Access database was used as the system backbone and linked to the AutoCAD 2010 software. The database keeps product data, customer requirements and technical requirements. Drawing files for the product were handled by the CAD module integrated with QFD and PDM system. Such a system is dynamic for e-Learning purposes since scholars can use any desired practical design task rather than a pre-modeled video that only supports the original design problem.

Petri-net modelling for batch production

Timed Petri nets can be used for the modelling and analysis of a wide range of concurrent discrete-event systems, e.g. batch production systems. The present paper describes how to do so while starting from the information about the structure of a production facility and about the products usually given in production-data management systems. We describe a method for using these data to algorithmically build a Petri-net model. The method was used to study the multi-product batch plant and to identify bottleneck situations.

The use of information management tools as support to the product development process in a metal mechanical company

In this paper, we present a case study developed in a Brazilian metal mechanical company on the application of computer systems as support for a product development process. In the first part, we present a literature review on themes such as product development, PLM and PDM (Product Lifecycle Management and Product Data Management) systems. In the case study, we describe the PDP Product Development Process and the use of CAD/ CAE (Computer Aided Design and Engineering) systems in the company, as well as some problems observed. In the end, we propose some possible opportunities to PDP improvement using PDM systems.

<p>Small & Medium Enterprises-Their Views of Product Data Management Tools</p>

This study was conducted as a means to discover common traits associated with small and medium manufacturers, especially ones who have adopted product data management (PDM) systems as a method to control engineering design and manufacturing data. After qualitative interviews were conducted with leading experts across industry sectors, a survey was developed and sent to small and medium manufacturers in the United States. The study concludes a number of interesting findings about the state of PDM usage within various segments of the industry, including general uses for engineering design systems, level of data exchange with customers and suppliers, and satisfaction levels with information querying, concurrent engineering contributions, and imposed restrictions. The study concludes that there are a few major factors that determine a company’s success with using design and data management systems, including frequency of data exchange, data reuse, digital data formats used, and employee counts and locations.

소프트웨어 하드웨어 협동설계를 위한 통합모듈을 지원하는 제품자료모델

Since software and hardware integration has became a strategic tool for companies to innovate their products, an information system that can comprehensively manage software and hardware integrated product development is critical for the current product development. This paper proposed a product data model that can support modules of related software and hardware parts in Product Data Management(PDM) integrated with Software Configuration Management(SCM). The model allows engineers to define software and hardware product structure independently, and support the integration module that can summon related software and hardware parts to build a comprehensive module for collaboration. Through the integration module, engineers can identify and examine the effectiveness of their design alternatives to other related parts form different disciplines. The product data model was implemented as a prototype PDM system and tested with an example robotics product.

An integrated approach to technology platform and product platform development

Platforms may enable offering a variety of products to the market while keeping the development cost down. Reusing design knowledge is a key concept, whether manifested as reusing parts, ideas, concepts, or technologies. This article describes processes and information technology solutions for holistically working with both technology platforms and product platforms. A platform framework was developed for managing information and to support the processes. The use of the framework is illustrated through a case study performed at a subsupplier in the aerospace industry focusing on technology development, platform-based product development, and platform configuration. A wiki system supports the technology platform, containing electronic guidelines, methods, and information about the technologies. To support the product platform, a product lifecycle management architecture is created. A turbine rear structure from a turbofan engine is used as an example, requiring several different analysis technologies to be used and coordinated when creating a variant. The solution is a product lifecycle management architecture created based on the technology platform. It integrates a product data management system, a computer-aided design tool, two computer-aided engineering tools, and a configurator.

Development of Parts Family Manage System Based on PDM in Large-Scale Air Separation Equipment

Large-scale air separation equipment is used widely in chemical industry. It can provide oxygen, nitrogen and argon for the production process. Based on the deep analysis of the working principle and using equipment, the air separation unit product data management (PDM) system is developed by Visual Basic (VB) in this paper develops. The modularized design procedure and grouping technique (GT) are adopted in this system. The morphological matrix is used to establish their coordination relationship among parts. The system has many characters, such as perfect function, reasonable database structure, and concise software interface layout. Optimizing equipment parts management properly and effectively has important practical significance in designing the subsequent product development work and establishing concurrent design environment of the air separation unit.