Engineering data management in collaborative environment has always been a big challenge for manufacturing companies. Product Data Management techniques can be efficiently used to satisfy need of collaborative design environment.
ADVANTAGES OF PDM IMPLEMENTATION
- Data Vaulting
- Effective user management
- Version & Revision Management with revision history
- Link Management
- Design Workflow management
- Engineering Change Orders
- BOM Management and where used query
- Management of Non CAD Data
- Property Management through user defined fields
- Quick search on document
- Collaboration across global locations
- Open access to attribute data

