NEW GUIDELINES IN CREATING PLM AND PDM SOFTWARE
Operational experience in development of new products, over the past ten years have shown a increased need for new PLM (Product Lifecycle Management) and PDM (Product Data Management) software. New product design and steadily growing structure complexity in industrial environment (especially in automotive and aerospace industry) lead to new requirements in basic PDM architecture. Regard to constantly new product requirements, the PDM architecture is constantly changing to achieve optimum outcomes in the product design process. In this paper we expose our approach to give some specific guidelines in creating a own PDM software database for some cases in the automotive industry. On the other hand whilst major CAD companys have perceived the permanently need for new PDM software we try to give a cutaway of the instantaneous market situation for PDM software (Windchill PDMLink, Enovia Solutions, Streamline etc.). Simultaneous solution (basic sketch) for solving the needs of constantly changing design requirements is given with a own developed software which combines the general PDM modules with the specific requests of a product. In this case a brake disc was choosen, represented in the CATIA V5 software followed by a PLM analyse trough the own developed (basic sketch) PDM software.