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Product data management
About: Product data management is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 1187 publications have been published within this topic receiving 12076 citations. The topic is also known as: PDM.
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01 Jan 2005
TL;DR: The objective of the first chapter of this book is to provide an introduction to PLM, answering the questions: “What is PLM?”; “Why PLM?"; ‘When did PLM appear’; and “Where isPLM used?’
Abstract: Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) is the business activity of managing, in the most effective way, a company’s products all the way across their lifecycles; from the very first idea for a product all the way through until it is retired and disposed of. The objective of the first chapter of this book is to provide an introduction to PLM, answering the questions: “What is PLM?”; “Why PLM?”; “When did PLM appear”; and “Where is PLM used?” This will help those working with PLM in a company, including those involved in a company’s PLM Initiative, to understand the basics of PLM and why it’s so important. It will allow them to participate more fully in the PLM Initiative and PLM activities. This chapter also aims to give students a basic understanding of PLM and its importance in industry. The first part of the chapter gives definitions of PLM, a PLM Initiative, and the PLM Paradigm. The second part of the chapter looks at the meaning of the letters P, L and M in the PLM acronym. The third part addresses the scope of PLM. It introduces the PLM Grid, describes activities within the scope of PLM; and identifies the resources managed in PLM. The fourth part of the chapter describes the PLM Paradigm, detailing concepts, consequences and corollaries. The fifth part looks at the potential benefits, strategic and operational, of PLM and a PLM Initiative. The sixth part shows how PLM has spread since its emergence in 2001. As of 2015, it’s used throughout manufacturing industry and throughout the world. The seventh and final part of the chapter looks at the problems that PLM solves and the opportunities it enables.
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TL;DR: The author proposes and discusses two related models, the Product Lifecycle Management Model (PLM Model) and the Mirrored Spaces Model (MSM), and investigates the conceptual and technical issues raised by these models.
Abstract: Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) is a developing paradigm. One way to develop an understanding of PLM's characteristic and boundaries is to propose models that help us conceptualise both holistic and component views in compact packages. Models can give us both a rich way of thinking about overall concepts and can identify areas where we need to explore issues that such models raise. In this paper, the author proposes and discusses two such related models, the Product Lifecycle Management Model (PLM Model) and the Mirrored Spaces Model (MSM) and investigates the conceptual and technical issues raised by these models.
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TL;DR: A number of currently available PDM systems that have embraced web-technologies are reviewed, and some industrial implementations are presented, showing how this new infrastructure enhances a traditional PDM system.
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TL;DR: The matter of this approach is to formalise all those technical data and concepts contributing to the definition of a Product Ontology, embedded into the product itself and making it interoperable with applications, thus minimising loss of semantics.
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TL;DR: A data structure is proposed, called generic BOMO, by unifying Bills- of-Materials (BOM) and routing data into a single set in order to synchronize multiple perspectives on variety such as customer ordering, product engineering, and operations planning to characterizing variety effectively.
Abstract: High-variety production like mass customization is facing the challenge of effective variety management, which needs to deal with numerous variants of both product and process in order to accommodate diverse customer requirements. To utilize commonality underlying product diversity and process variation, it has been widely accepted as a practice to develop product families, in which a set of similar variants share common product and process structures and variety differentiates within these common structures. Based on such variety implication, this paper proposes a data structure, called generic Bill-of-Materials-and-Operations (BOMO), by unifying Bills- of-Materials (BOM) and routing data into a single set in order to synchronize multiple perspectives on variety such as customer ordering, product engineering, and operations planning. A generic structure is accordingly developed for characterizing variety effectively. The merits of the generic BOMO for integrated product and production data management are...
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