Product data management systems

Kim, Y., Kang, S., Lee, S., Yoo, S. A distributed, open, intelligent product data management system. International Journal of Computer Integrated Manufacturing 14, 224-235 (2001)... 

PDM Product Data Management Systems that store information about products, their decomposition structure, and revision history, in order to support a company s manufacturing, inventory control, maintenance, and other technical activities. 

The management of sources of information (e.g., records and database management systems (RDBMS), document management systems (DMS), and product data management systems (PDM))... 

It s backbone is the product data management system [14], containing at least... 

These requirements have been integrated manually into a product data management system, but it would have been possible to import them from a document or from an external requirement management tool, whereby it would have been necessary to implement an appropriate interface. 

The potentially devastating consequences of GxP noncompliance in relation to computer systems became apparent in 1988. Deficient software in a data management system controlling a blood-plasma bank could have led to the issue blood infected with TUV (Human Immunodeficiency Virus). Similarly, computer systems are capable of endangering public health by manufacmring and erroneously releasing drug products of deficient quality. 

A Chemical Data Management System (CDMS) and other material tracking systems allow 3M to track the procurement and use of chemicals and other materials that may contain chemicals throughout the product lifecycle. The CDMS is also used to generate Material Safety Data Sheets (MSDSs), which help assure product safety. 

Philpotts, M. An introduction to the concepts, benects and terminology of product data management. Industrial Management Data Systems 4, 11-17 (1996)... 

It has been a common practice for different departments in a company have different understandings of product families from their specific perspectives. Such incoherence in semantics and subseqnent deployment of information represents a formidable hindrance to enrrent engineering data management systems (EDBS) (Kranse et al. 1993). It is necessary to maintain different perspectives of prodnct family representation in a single context. In addition, variety originates from the functional domain and propagates across the entire product-development process. Therefore, the representation of product families should characterize various forms of variation at different stages of product development. 

On the other hand, with joint product data management, conversion problems for system-specific data occur in process chains based on an EDM system. These problems exist in a similar form in coupled process chains. This makes it impossible to combine individual documents into an integrated data model. References within various systems, related to objects within a document rather than the document itself, cannot be made. 

With Empower and its parent product Millennium, Waters is the pioneer for database-supported CDS. With the current version Empowers, the final stage of advancements is supposed to be reached. Currently, Waters is developing a successor called UNIEI that follows a new conception and a redevelopment from the scratch the combination of CDS, Electronic Lab Notebook (ELN), and Scientific Data Management System (SDMS). 

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