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Every commercial enterprise must
successfully manage its
products, customers, personnel,
supply chain, and finances.
While MRP/ERP and CRM are
well-established solutions to
manage people, production and
profits, in the past 10 years
there has been a concerted
effort to centralize and control
product data.
Product lifecycle management
(PLM) represents an
all-encompassing vision for
managing historical data,
current configurations and
planned changes relating to the
definition, design, validation,
production, support and ultimate
disposal of manufactured goods.
PLM can be thought of as both
(a) a repository for all
information that affects a
product, and (b) a formal
communication channel between
product stakeholders:
principally marketing,
engineering, manufacturing and
field service. The PLM system is
the first place where all
product information from
marketing and design comes
together, and where it leaves in
a form suitable for production
and support.
Current PLM approaches have been
driven by solutions to a series
of increasingly complex
problems. Some challenges were
primarily procedural or
cultural, and their solutions
were conceptual, such as the
development of a product
configuration management (CM)
discipline. Other issues were
purely practical (e.g., how to
manage design files) and their
resolutions were equally
pragmatic (electronic data
management systems [EDMS]).
Current PLM solutions typically
represent the convergence of
capabilities from earlier CM,
EDMS, product data management
(PDM) and CAD file management
systems. At a minimum, a PLM
system will address:
- Revision management for
requirement, design and process
documentation
Part identification and
description
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Identification and management of
vendor sources and their
approved parts
- Product structure (bill of
material) construction and
control
- Electronic file repository
(“data library” or “vault”)
- Materials content identification
for regulatory compliance (WEEE/RoHS/ELV)
and economic control Definition of custom part and
document metadata ("attributes")
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Workflow for formally approving
data changes
Multi-user secured access,
including "electronic signature"
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Data export to downstream
ERP/SCM/CRM systems.
Definition provided by
Ed Allwein from
Active Sensing Inc |
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PLMIC Alliance Partners are
contributors to the mission of
the PLMIC. Our FlexPLMSM
Alliance Partner Ed Allwein from
Active Sensing is as dedicated as
we are in bringing the cornerstones
of programmatic business
development to you in one, easy
to use, unified online resource.
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PDXpert product lifecycle
management software is simple to use, flexible to apply, and improves the
accessibility and security of your design, production and support data. PDXpert
PLM offers document revision control; part & bill of material (BOM) management;
controlled-access data library; RoHS materials classification; change management
(ECO) and approval workflow; multi-user access; and data export.
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