The efficient management of product-related data is a big challenge for many manufacturing companies, especially the larger ones like DaimlerChrysler. So-called Product Data Management (PDM) systems are used to tackle this task. But especially in worldwide distributed product development environments, where low bandwidth networks are used, response times of PDM systems often raise to several mi...

Current manufacturing industry requires product data management (PDM) for efficient product development and production. As an important part of effective PDM solutions, workflow management facilitates creating and executing workflow so as to streamline business processes. Unfortunately, existing workflow management solutions are designed to handle static business processes; when a workflow chan...

The nature of CMS construction is heavily constrained by time and budget, evolves with time and is highly distributed. Changes in CMS component design need to be tracked and quickly reflected in the production process. In industry, engineers employ Product Data Management (PDM) systems to control access to documented versions of designs. Workflow management systems (WfMS) [1] are employed to co...

Currently, the challenge of implementing a product data management system (PDMS) is how to ensure system integration and product data exchange is shared between heterogeneous systems. In this research, an integrated data models and implementation approach for PDMS is proposed that uses the STEP (Standard for the Exchange of Product) model data standard and schema as proposed by the Object Manag...

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 an...

A Manufacturing Engineering ToolKit (METK) is under development at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). The toolkit consists of commercial-offthe-shelf (COTS) manufacturing engineering software applications. The purpose of the toolkit is to provide an integrated framework, operating environment, common databases, and interface standards for those applications. Currently, m...

Product Data Management (PDM) systems and their offspring, Collaborative Product Development and Product Lifecycle Management technologies, aim to bring engineering enterprises together, allowing seamless interoperability between different departments and throughout the extended enterprises. However, there are a number of shortcomings in the current crop of commercially available systems, such ...

Product Data Management (PDM) supports management of both data and the product development process during the total life cycle of the product. However, current technology has several pitfalls such as lack compliance of workflow modules to standards as well as lack interoperability between PDM systems. This paper illustrates the extension of the current workflow management system (WfMS) part of ...