PLM stands for Product Lifecycle Management.
PLM is a series of application solutions that support the creation, management, distribution, and application of information throughout the entire product lifecycle by integrating human resources, processes, applications, and information related to products within a single-site enterprise, within an enterprise dispersed across multiple sites, and between enterprises that have collaborative relationships in the area of product development.
Extended Information:
1, the management goal has a high degree of consistency
The management goal is to try to reduce errors and rework through scientific scheduling and control, in the shortest possible time, through the least amount of resources consumed, with the most economical means and methods, to ensure that the product as soon as possible to market.
2, the process of continuity
Enterprise design and development process is in accordance with the design route from the whole to the local gradual refinement of the development of manufacturing processes are in accordance with the manufacturing from the local to the overall manufacturing, assembly process to carry out the final product of the enterprise is the result of the connection of these two processes from the different routes and areas of the development of the process.
3, there is a causal relationship between the processing business
Production, manufacturing and other areas of the use of products, components and product structure, is the enterprise design department created components and product structure and state of the expression. Design department designed products, both the product of design research and development, but also the subsequent production process to carry out the activities of the target and object.
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