Contributions of PDM Systems in Organizational Technical Data Management

Abstract: Product Data Management (PDM) claims of producing desktop and web based systems to maintain the organizational data to increase the quality of products by improving the process of development, business process flows, change management, product structure management, project tracking and resource planning. Moreover PDM helps in reducing the cost and effort required in engineering. This paper discusses PDM desktop and web based system, needed information and important guidelines for PDM system development, functional requirements, basic components in detail and some already implemented PDM Sys-tems. In the end paper investigates and briefly concludes major currently faced challenges to Product Data Management (PDM) community.