Product Data Management (PDM) claims of producing desktop and web based systems to maintain the organizational data to increase the quality of products by improving the process of development, business process flows, change management, product structure management, project tracking and resource planning. Moreover PDM helps in reducing the cost and effort required in engineering. This paper disc...

Product Data Management (PDM) desktop and web based systems maintain the organizational technical and managerial data to increase the quality of products by improving the processes of development, business process flows, change management, product structure management, project tracking and resource planning. Though PDM is heavily benefiting industry but PDM community is facing a very serious un...

This article explores interrelationships between the concepts of Product Data Management (PDM), Enterprise Information Architecture (EIA), and enterprise IT strategy in process industries. The initial purpose of the study was to evaluate the capabilities of PDM development, as well as the existence of PDM strategy, to support the development and introduction of EIA in practice. However, the out...

Within the industry there is a need of controlling the whole product development process including both hardware and software components. The integration of development processes meets many problems partially because of the different nature of the processes and partially because of the different approaches. A typical example of overlapping processes is Software Configuration Management (SCM) an...

Given that the amount of product data in firms is explosively increasing, a PDM system for effective data management is considered indispensable for product development. However, considerable time and specialized human resources are needed to customize a generic PDM system for satisfying the specific requirements of individual firms. To overcome this problem, we propose the use of UML object mo...

The course of the Product Data Management (PDM) is an Interdisciplinary course, which has the distinctive engineering and management characteristics. In order to satisfy the demand of teaching reform and researching of the PDM, the practice and applying is analyzed based on PDM software management platform. Based on the analysis, for the students’ all-round development and improving the teachin...

The paper deals with a Unified Modeling Language (UML)-based approach for implementing Product Data Management (PDM) system. Such kind of system enables the management of the entire product lifecycle and related information about its design, its manufacturing and its in-service. The interest of using an UML-based approach for modeling, specifying and implementing PDM systems is detailed. Then a...

Software Configuration Management (SCM) is the discipline of controlling the evolution of a software product. Product Data Management (PDM) is the disciple of designing and controlling the evolution of a product design. For a long time, these two domains have been disconnected, but they probably share common concepts and techniques. Furthermore, any large product development includes a substant...