A Framework for Product Lifecycle Management System

PLM (product lifecycle management, PLM) is a strategic business approach to enable product innovation. PLM system is a complicated aggregation by technology and application. Generally, a PLM system is the aggregation of one or several kernel functions and a view of PLM solution. In order to implement a PLM system, a global product information model was proposed. It comprises of three parts, namely product development process model, master product model and product application model. A model transfer algorithm that achieves the information from master product model to product application model was presented as well. Then a framework of PLM system that supports industry solution was put forward, and its integration mode was discussed. By adopting this PLM system, and through continuing improvement, the productivity and hence profitability of enterprises is increased. It is anticipated that this approach to product information modelling and system integration framework would be an important contribution towards PLM system implementation