Research On PDM Implementation In FAW Jiefang Automobile Co, Ltd.

With the globalization trend of automobile manufacture and china's entering WTO, Fawcar is facing a great inside and outside competitive pressure. To meet the need of quickly increasing product category, the company must change the hand-worked management models, and improve the level and efficiency of serialization, standardization, and generalization in product R&D. in addition, the player in Fawcar's supply chain, for example, Technology Center, Fawdldiesel, Wxdew, and Qdfaw, have implemented PDM system. To carry out the data's electronization and fast-acceptance in supply chain, Faw decides to implement PDM (Product Data Management).In allusion to the current management models and future development, Fawcar's Collaborative Product Development Management System might meet the management need of product R%D, production preparative and the whole engineering change process, and could collaborate with Faw Technology Center, professional factory, sub-companies to carry out production R&D, and production preparative. The implement of the system focuses on the sustainment of product data maintenance, R&D of derivative product, and production preparative. The system will build a product collaboration platform that can integrate product design and the whole production preparative process to (1)develop the level of sharing product data with supplier; (2)advance the capability to control the product change; (3) optimize the process of production collaboration; (4)increase the company's current system integration; (5)enhance the company's operation efficiency.At September, 2004, according to the FAW's instructions, the company decided that the lectotype scheme would chose Qi Ming's CPDM(PDM plus...