Interfacing heterogeneous PDM systems by PLM services for design collaboration
Erkan Günpınar, Hanmin Lee, Soonhung Han · 2006
Product data management (PDM) is a popular topic for concurrent engineering to manage and access to product data in a company. There are commercial PDM softwares and companies use different PDM systems which are most suitable for their needs. For collaboration with their suppliers, companies need to interface their PDM systems with PDM systems of their suppliers. It will result faster product information flow between OEM and its suppliers. This study proposes to integrate 2 different PDM systems by PLM services, which is based on Web services. PLM services enables the data exchange through the Internet