Product repository

The primary challenges to this kind of approach are:

• Multiple views and consistency
  There is no single product view for all company users, but a number of different views.
  What is the best way to provide each user with the appropriate product view while managing overall consistency?
• Uniformity and technology
  Many companies do not manage one but several types of products.
  How can products associated with different technological sectors be managed uniformly?
• Modification dynamics
  Product definitions are not static, they change constantly.
  How can this ongoing dynamic be controlled and what is the best way to ensure the traceability of modifications and their associated history?
• Documentation management
  Products are generally documented with a wide variety of other documents.
  How can these documents be classified and located ? How can their contents be validated?
• Multi-business data management
  Complex products are, by definition, a combination of data from various disciplines (mechanical, electrical, electronic, software …) 
  How can the global configuration of such a product be efficiently and effectively governed?

PCO Innovation will advise and accompany you in the implementation of PLM best practices:

PLM can be used to satisfy several needs that arise from these challenges:

• PLM can be used to manipulate concepts inherent in the needs of various enterprise users and provide appropriate views of their product: “as specified,” “as designed,” “as planned,” “as manufactured,” as maintained.”
• PLM can be used to classify concepts that can be manipulated based on how they are organized or classified (taxonomy) in a given technological field, while simultaneously managing several taxonomies.
• PLM has several powerful tools available for change management, which can be used to accommodate a wide variety of change scenarios.
• Documents with a relatively stable structure can be automatically generated from information that is directly associated with products (providing strong coupling between data management and document contents). Other documents can be attached “as is” to the products they represent.