Installing a PDM System

February 1998 / International Features / Better Control with PDM / Installing a PDM System

Implementing a PDM system in a large, international company requires an enormous amount of planning and reengineering of business processes. "You really need to look at the corporate work flow and optimize it. It's no good just to apply PDM to old, bad flows," explains SDRC's Norbert Reimann.
To make implementation easier, PDM vendors are providing streamlining options. For example, SDRC is introducing templates to standardize process implementation in specif ic industries, as well as encouraging other PDM vendors to adopt these templates for regional and industry-specific needs. For the same reason, PDM vendor Sherpa has developed industry-specific object libraries so that new users needn't start from scratch. This avoids each company's having to define objects, processes, and data relationships when there are often many similarities between processes within an industry.

PDM Brings Mangement and Control
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PDM helps to manage data as well as control the engineering process.

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