PLM (full name is product life cycle management), that is, product life cycle management, helps enterprises optimize and control the product development process, quickly develop products that meet customer needs, reduce product development and production costs, and enhance product innovation ability and market competitiveness.
Different industries have different requirements for PLM, and different manufacturing models and products have different requirements for PLM. Manufacturing enterprises, whether machinery production enterprises or consumer goods production enterprises, such as automobile, clothing, shoemaking, medicine and other industries, have great demand for PLM. Domestic machinery, electronics, automobiles and accessories, hardware and plastics, furniture and other industries are also more suitable for PLM system.
At present, PTC, Autodesk, Siemens, Oracle and Kingdee all provide PLM services. Dassault, Siemens PLM software and PTC are leading in discrete and process manufacturing, and Autodesk is good at CAx design software. However, in the domestic market, large software companies such as Kingdee, Digital China and UFIDA have begun to enter the PLM market. Kingdee 20 1 1 has been able to provide PLM solutions in the fields of process manufacturing and discrete manufacturing, covering potential industries such as clothing, food and medicine. Ufida's PDM was also released in October11May.