Interfacing heterogeneous PDM systems by PLM Services for design collaboration

Abstract

Product Data Management (PDM) is a popular topic for Concurrent Engineering to manage and access all product data in a company. There are lots of PDM softwares and companies use different PDM systems which are most suitable for their needs. For collaboration with their suppliers, companies need to interface with PDM systems of their suppliers. It will result faster product information flow between OEM and its suppliers. The time to market is an important issue for this integration. This study proposes to interface 2 different PDM systems using PLM Services of OMG (www.omg.org), which is based on Web Services. PLM Services enables the data exchange through the Internet.