| Enterprise information application has been going into deep with information technology speedily development. It's becoming the sign of evaluating a enterprise's level of synthesized management that the level of a enterprise apply the information technology. However, in the progress of a enterprise's information technology application it is not always plain sailing. The problem will come forth ceaselessly. PDM(product data management) has been soundless naissance when people are taking delight in talking CADVCAM. PDM is a new idea and technology of management. PDM can be defined that it's based on software technology and cored with product which can fulfill integration management to the data that associate to product include data, process and resource. PDM with the supporting of information technology is the effective method in fulfilling enterprise optimizing management. It's the outcome of combination of scientific management framework and enterprise problem. It's also a product of the combination of computer technology and enterprise culture.This article has expatiated the definition of PDM (product data management), development, system framework and function. It has discussed the status of PDM in a enterprise. The application status of PDM has been introduced.The framework, each function and associated technology has been studied in this article.The important model of PDM is the model of product structure management and the model of product configure management. They has been researched deeply in this article. The connection between each sort of data object associating with the product data and product configure has been analyzed. The basis of technology and thinking of the foundation of product structure tree has been expatiated. The fulfilling method has been given. The multi view management of structure of product has been researched. The configure model and the fulfilling way based on every configure rule has been given.The process of structure management has been discussed deeply. The issue of design of product information structure has been researched. This will redound to the research of product structure management and the development of software. |