Product Data Management System Implementation And Its Application

Product Data Management (PDM) has already became one of the hotspots in the research and application in the field of manufacturing informatization. As it has not one rounded definition for PDM now, the definition often quoted by people is the one given by EdMiller, the president of America CIM-data Corporation, "PDM is a technology which can control and manage all product correlative information and product correlated process ".Thus, PDM system usually behaves as a sort of foundational software structure. In one side, it can save and manages mass product data and information of an enterprise in reasonable and virtual organize mode; on the other hand, it can provide a suit of instrument definite and control lots of business circuits bring and use these information .As a result ,it leads enterprise obtains maximum advantage by efficient utilization of product information, and optimum balance between information security and quality control.For the advantage of PDM system in effective management to product data and improvement on business circuit and there have been many famous enterprises in the world have took the lead in adopt and success implement their PDM system, more and more enterprises plan to adopt PDM system and PDM market is at on the increase.PDM technology is the expansion and extend of engineering data management, electronic document management, technical data management or technical information management, image management were knew very well. It reorganizes a series of idea and technology about them with "product" for kernel. Though originated from manufacturing industry , the main theory and method can be well used in various domains such as the architecture engineering ,civic facilities building etc. Especially related department in our country begin on their own ground to substitute handiwork drawing with CAD technology, and this action should far and away promote advances of design automation technology. Therefore it will bring the problem of information management owing to the application of CAD and other CAX technology widely, and it is necessary to the application of PDM system.PDM technology provides the good solution for effective management of product data and improvement on business process. But because the features of PDM technology and the complexity of enterprise condition, it is not easy to successful application of PDM system . Today examples of successful application of PDM are not much, the main reason is the lack of implement means theory and implementmethodology . The author study this problem in this article with the process and experience on successful implement of PDM system of Zhengzhou Textile Machinery Corporation . Seem to us, as a sort of manage qualitative and foundational software structure, PDM is very likely to ERP ,other kind of information management system already have been applied largely, at the aspect of application and implement methods. Repose such considering, The author analyses many reports about the implement process of PDM in foreign and native enterprises and refers to some methods to implement ERP system. The author try to draws the conclusion of implement means theory and implement methodology, and broad contents include: several principles to implement PDM system, basic implement means, broad contents and steps of implementation.Meanwhile, The author also finds human factors have vital influence to application of PDM system. PDM is one of organic constituents of Contemporary Manufacturing System. Human factors are key factors of the research,development and application of Contemporary Manufacturing System . According to VDI 's inquiry ,it indicates that the factors came from human make up 19.2% in factors impact to successful application of CIMS. Report of America Advanced Manufacturing Engineering Corporation in April ,1990 also indicates: The resistance of implement of CIMS has 70% came from human factors.. Undoubtedly, human factors and human factors engineering play important roles in Contemporary Manufacturing System. It must be s...