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Major Technology 5: Product Data Management and Bill of Materials—PDM/BOM

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Virtual Product Creation in Industry

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The basic need for and the role of data management in Virtual Product Creation, both have already been introduced in Chap. 4 (Virtual Product Creation (VPC) explained). The history of Product Data Management (PDM) has been explained in Sect. 5.3 as part of the overall Chap. 5 (The technology history of Virtual Product Creation). This chapter defines and explains the use of Product Data Management (PDM) and Bill of Materials (BOM), based on given standards and the technological state of the art. Engineering and administrative tasks, carried out in specific functions of Product Data and BOM Management, as well as the related information architectures are both described in detail. Furthermore, this chapter provides an insight and a critical analysis on how engineers benefit from using PDM and BOM and how the IT technology behind the digital solution architectures works. This chapter also covers crucial integration aspects of PDM/BOM solutions within the bigger scope of PLM (Product Lifecycle Management) and ends with an outlook on expected further development innovations for the future. This chapter is crucial for all beginners, experts and Managers to understand the underlying data management principles of Virtual Product Creation.

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Notes

  1. 1.

    The Fraunhofer Institute for Production Systems and Design Technology (IPK) in Berlin, Germany, offers various learning modules for Professional in Product Lifecycle Management under: https://www.ipk.fraunhofer.de/en/events/mehr-koennen/seminars/plm-professional.html.

  2. 2.

    OOTB: Out of the box.

  3. 3.

    COTS: Commercially over the shelf.

  4. 4.

    The Code of PLM Openness (CPO) is an internationally unique initiative for open IT systems that was launched by leading German automotive manufacturers together with the prostep ivip association and which is sponsored by the German Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy (BMWi).

  5. 5.

    See explanations in Chap. 21.

  6. 6.

    The British Standards Institute defines BIM as follows: “the process of generating and managing information about a building during its entire life. BIM is a suite of technologies and processes that integrate to form the ‘system’ at the heart of which is a component-based 3D representation of each building element; this supersedes traditional design tools currently in use.”

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Stark, R. (2022). Major Technology 5: Product Data Management and Bill of Materials—PDM/BOM. In: Virtual Product Creation in Industry. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-64301-3_11

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