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What you Need to Know about Product Data Management

Posted by Emma Rudeck on 25-Apr-2013 17:36:00

pDMProduct data management (PDM) is important for companies, as it enables them to control access and share information effectively. There has been research done, which concludes a strong correlation between business performance and a company’s ability to manage their product data [source: www.tech-clarity.com]. By using a PDM system, organisation are better able to support growth and overall performance.

What is it that makes PDM important?

PDM is important for the engineering teams. Before a design release, it can be chaotic. Engineers and designers need to try a wide range of different options to create the optimum solution. But, unless they can track what they did yesterday, last week or even earlier, it is hard to manage these different versions effectively. Teams also need to be able to track what they want to keep and what they want to discard, so they have a central source for all data related to the product.  Otherwise, they risk using misplacing data, using old versions, and not properly implementing design changes, which can result in costly last minute changes and decreased profitability.

What are the core PDM capabilities?

For smaller organisations, not having CAD data management makes it hard to increase their productivity and improve collaboration. But, by having PDM, it enables them to manage assemblies, which can have hundreds of files attached to them, and keeping track of all the associated revisions, helping to prevent mistakes. It is also a valuable work-group and coordination tool.

But, PDM can do more for your organisation that this. It can scale beyond just the individual or work-group and enable you to share information with manufacturing. This allows for a broader set of people to work on the design itself and also, as the design changes and evolves, it means you are able to share these updates.

What are the benefits of PDM?

By having a PDM system, it allows for more effective and complete data management. PDM is a central store for all of your CAD data, complete with version control of CAD models, as well as their structures and relationships. It is a secure repository for your designs, which is scalable to your business needs.

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