Нормативно-справочная база CALS. Международная нормативная база. The current and future business environment is characterised

November 1996.

1.  Background

This paper has its origins in a workshop held at Volvo, Gothenburg in September 1996. The objective of the workshop was to identify the common interests, direction and concerns of major companies using PDM from several different industries.

The companies represented at the workshop were: Volvo, Ford, Boeing, British Aerospace, Daimler Benz, ABB, Ericsson, plus the University of Darmstadt.

The companies involved all recognised that while the emerging STEP standard provides some of what is needed, more positive action is required, particularly with respect to PDM practices.

2.  What is Open PDM?

Open PDM is a response to the needs of companies to manage product data in a way which supports both internal requirements and facilitates partnership with customer and partners, using multiple, different PDM and functional systems.

Open PDM must also:

·  Make appropriate use of standards;

·  Support future as well as current processes.

3.  Why is Open PDM needed?

The current and future business environment is characterised by:

·  partnerships between companies

·  concurrent engineering approaches

·  globalisation

The effect of these characteristics is that the design, manufacture and use of products typically involves multiple companies with different PDM systems. Therefore PDM systems and the way they are configured and used needs to support data exchange and sharing between companies as well as within a company.

4.  Current barriers to Open PDM

The following barriers exist:

5.  Response to the barriers

Taken together, these barriers give rise to considerable cost in partnership projects which adds no value.

One business response for large companies is to use their purchasing position to force the use of a given PDM system onto suppliers. However, unlike with CAD systems, the use of the same PDM system does not guarantee exchange will work given the configuration potential of most PDM systems. Therefore a more open approach to PDM is necessary.