Management of the Engineering Data for Manufacturing

All departments in a business work separately, but for the same purpose.In this article, a system that allows not only the mechanical design department but also the manufacturing, storage, process planning, quality control, electrical design, purchasing departments, etc. to have access to the required information has been developed. Initially, current manufacturng result informations is collected from the project attandees. Secondly, a workflow is designed dependent on the current data flow. All the project stakeholders are introduced to join and use product data management system. In the absence of this kind of system, loss of time, scraps and loss of engineering time would be investigated. This allowed the company owners to be sure that no faulty revision of design will be produced after the system started. On the other hand automation of bill of materials generation provided the purchasing department correct and up to date information about outsourced parts. Allowing different engineering disciplines to work together provided more suitable environment. Gradually this conditions allowed all the departments work faster and market the new product much faster than before the system. Tracing the workflows for management purposes would be handled by the system. A ‘Validation of Design’ process is modelled for the company.

Design and Integration of JMF-Based Multimedia-Supported Environment in a Product Data Management System

In order to meet discipline experts' requirements of knowledge exchange, conflict resolution, and design decision in the collaborative product design process, a JMF-based multimedia-supported environment (MSE) is proposed. The requirement to develop the MSE for multi-disciplinary collaborative design process is analyzed. Related key technologies of multimedia applications required to build the integrated MSE are described. Construction of multimedia interaction mode, design of system architecture, and formulation of development plan are implemented. Discipline experts' roles are defined, and safety certification function of application programs is achieved. Based on the development platform of Java 2 enterprise edition (J2EE), the realization of the system is completed, and the system is integrated into a previously developed product data management system. Through system experiment and test, the JMF-based system environment can well meet the needs of multimedia real-time interaction, knowledge sharing, and collaborative decision making in the process of collaborative product design.

Green Bicycle Product Designation Using Product Data Management System

Environmental norms and the combination of market mechanism has become an international trend in recent years, therefore green product design is an important research topic. In this paper, we apply product data management system to the R&D of bicycle as a product design management tools, products and components to be established a database in order to generate bill of material to facilitate the assessment, re-use evaluation software inventory of green bicycle main parts, and to provide of the green bicycle industry reference for the design.

Semantic Data Management in PDM System Based on Object Deputy Model

Semantic data management is a key issue in PDM (product data management) system. Traditional PDM system is not suitable for complex semantic data management. Moreover, most of the PDM systems cannot provide efficient semantic search over database. In this paper, we present a data warehouse which adopts the object deputy model to store semantic product data. Most important of all, we can provide more convenient and efficient semantic search for users. The experiment results show that our approach is more feasible and efficient than the traditional one.

Research on Integration of PDM and ERP System

Product Data Management system and Enterprise Resource Planning system is an important information system for enterprise, the effective integration between them is the key of enterprise-wide information. In this paper, through comparative analysis of system functions, application objectives, application scope, product structure, etc, we identify the differences and relationships between the Product Data Management system and the Enterprise Resource Planning system, and further analyze and discuss the integrated content, integrated model and integrated framework between them.