Workflow engine-driven universal product lifecycle management system framework for small and medium-size enterprises

PLM (product lifecycle management) is the management of the enterprise's products all the way across their lifecycles in the most effective way. However, at present, the PLM system in the market is not very appropriate to the small and medium-size enterprises. This paper presents a workflow engine-driven universal PLM system framework, which is constructed by four layers: client layer, application layer, business logic layer, data layer. The workflow engine-driven universal PLM system framework can be directly used as the PLM system, or can be used to customize the autonomy PLM system for the small and medium-size enterprises. The workflow engine-driven universal PLM system framework is implemented by Java enterprise edition and service-oriented architecture, which has the advantage of lightweight, cross-platform, and so on.