Internet of things value for mechanical engineers and evolving commercial product lifecycle management system

Currently, expectations from Internet of Things (IoT) are extremely high worldwide. However, mechanical engineers working on product design processes do not always benefit. This paper utilizes the up-to-date IoT-enabled commercial product lifecycle management (PLM) system to examine the effectiveness of IoT value for mechanical engineers. Moreover, it discusses the maturity model for digital engineering for the new era of IoT. Furthermore, this paper introduces significant initiatives such as a PLM functionality connected to everything, monitoring of field data for getting back to design process, and virtual 3D data and real field data superposition. This paper concludes that there is high potential to use IoT technology for mechanical engineers from the perspective of quality and reliability design innovations.