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How to get CONSUMER PRODUCTS Design Data under Control and improve Team Manage using SOLIDWORKS PDM?

What is PDM? 

In today's consumer products industry, industrial designers and mechanical engineers must work together to bring new products to market with cutting-edge design, market-leading functionality, and low manufacturing costs. 

Product data management (PDM) is the business function often within product lifecycle management (PLM) that is responsible for the management and publication of product data. 

What are the Goals? 

The goals of product data management include, 

ensuring all stakeholders share a common understanding, that confusion during the execution of the processes is minimized, and that the highest standards of quality controls are maintained. 

What is it Focus on? 

Product data management is focused on capturing and maintaining information on products and/or services through its development and useful life. Typical information managed in the PDM module include. 

Common challenges for Consumer Products Designer 

• More confusions in making file revisions 
• To do changes, copying entire data 
• Spending critical time for searching files or even deleted 
• No data security so anyone can access and make faulty corrections 
• Difficult to streamline detail information about data workflow around the global 
• Users may get frustrate in Data replication and synchronization. 

Possible Solutions can do in PDM 

1.Find the Data you are looking for fast: 

• Advanced searching tools inside Windows Explorer 
• Just input the specific information, make it easy 

2.Maintain Version and Revision History: 

• Versions are automatically created and references updated 
• Increment revisions automatically based on defined approval process 

3.Electronic Workflow: 

• Automatically send notifications to designated users and groups when files have modify/Change state 
• Easy to use graphical workflow tool 

4.Manage Non-Cad Data Easily 

• Easily produce customized bills of materials (BOMs) for individual departments
• Manage, view, and print document from more than 250 file types including major CAD formats, Microsoft Office files, images, and animations
• Automatically create neutral files, such as PDFs, eDrawingsTM or STEP 

5.Automate business processes 

• Utilize multiple workflows to handle different document types and approval processes
• Facilitate multiple required approvers with Parallel transitions 

6.Collaborate across boundaries 

• Search for data in multiple ways, using parameters such as document or file name, contained data, or custom properties like part number, description, and current workflow state (e.g., released or in process)
• Enable staff and partners to contribute through webenabled portals from various connected devices including smartphones and tablets

Summary

• Track and manage all changes to product related data 
  
• PDM enables easy and quick access for users on different locations and different times 
• Secure organisation data with powerful Vault creation 
• Eliminate Redundancy in finding the right files in consistent way 
• Spend less time organizing and tracking design data 
• Improve productivity through reuse of product design data 
• Enhance collaboration 
• Helps using visual management. 

 

How Engineering Product Data Management plays vital role in Sheet Metal Industry ?

Product Data Management

Product

Anything that you design, develop, manufacture and make profit out of it.

Data

Files related to product design, development, manufacturing and process info.

Management

• Organizing the product & process info.
• Conquering the key challenges faced related to design data management area.
• Taking the process towards the destination with the flow.

Key challenges faced by the sheet metal industry related to engineering data management

1. Security of intellectual property.
2. Data leakage, deletion, modified.
3. Data Duplication.
4. Track & Locating legacy design data.
5. Version management.
6. Redundancy due to old revision in the shop floor.
7. Errors,time consumption,chaos due to manual Engineering Change Management.
8. Tons of drawing hard copies, ledgers, files, documentation requires space and individual to maintain it.
9. Pending of design approvals due to absence of authority.
10. Open access of design info to all stakeholders.
11. Control access of info sharing with internal & external stakeholders, suppliers, customers.
12. Robust to locate & track the info globally.
13. Searching a solution to build collaborate & concurrent working environment.
14. Impossible to revise MBOM (Manufacturing Bill of Material) from EBOM (Engineering Bill of Material) as BOM modification happens frequently at this stage before send it to the purchase department.

SOLIDWORKS Product Data Management

SOLIDWORKS Product Data Management Solutions

Vault (Centralized repository) protects the intellectual property (Design data & info).

• Most of the cases, their own machine acts as the server. Even in any exceptional case their server will be placed within their own location. So, there is no possibility of data leakage.
• Every individual needs authorization to access their info (Prevents data modification and deletion).
• Powerful search & reuse tool helps to track & locate the legacy design data with ease.
• Capture & Records all the design changes made from designers and make him aware of design changes made.
• Release only updated drawings to the shop floor (Rework is eliminated utterly).
• Avoids error due to manual process, automation of (ECR, ECN, ECO) process.
• Electronic info transfer (Utterly paperless), E-documents, E-files saves space, manhandling to maintain and to move it.
• Possible to approve and provide comments to the drawings with the electronic gadgets through E-drawing application. (As, it streamline the approval process).
• Controlled access provided to different person based upon their departments, roles & responsibility (Individual can able to access the info within their boundary).
• Possible to connect with suppliers, vendors, customers and restrict the info.
• Track & Locate the design info globally.
• Share,collaborate the design info and work concurrently from any part of the globe.
• Edit, compare, add EBOM & MBOM.

Summary:

• Optimize design cycle & throughput time.
• Reduces non-value added activities and the cost involved in it.
• Makes the product reaches the market faster (5x).
• Ease of use, as it is integrated with windows explorer interface.
• Simple installation.
• Implementation can be done within a month of time.
• Increases product & process quality.
• Possibility to integrate customized module based on client request through API.