Connecting Engineering to Other Departments through Data Management
August 7, 2012
One of the greatest problems, historically, impacting manufacturing enterprises is the lack of connectivity between engineering and other departments. Product lifecycle management (PLM) solutions have helped diminish that problem but haven’t eliminated it entirely. A recent Concurrent Engineering article, “PLM and Product Development Connects Engineering and Service”, discusses how PLM solutions need to bridge the gap between engineering and other departments.
As the article explains it,
“Developments in PLM now look to decrease the gap between engineering and service parts of an organisation. This makes collaboration and data sharing more convenient and more sustainable. It will reduce reliance on meetings and manual feedback procedures because the PLM system will automatically feed data across departments. Extending the scope of PLM across an organisation increases serviceability and creates a more unified approach to product development.”
Inforbix is a PLM provider that approaches data management differently. As their Website explains,
“Inforbix captures engineering information (eg. CAD data, bill of materials, information from PDM, and other enterprise systems) and makes it available for people outside of engineering. Inforbix product data apps are intuitive and easy to use. It’s a “Google-like” approach that makes finding and sharing engineering and manufacturing data fast and easy.”
As more enterprises demand their PLM solutions do just what Inforbix described above we will see an increase in PLM providers following suit.
Catherine Lamsfuss, August 7, 2012
Sponsored by ArnoldIT.com, developer of Augmentext.
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