Closing information loops with extended PLM

Abstract:- Aerospace and automobile industry today is faced with intense market competition. Enterprise ability to customization, time to market and competitive price is recipe for wining markets. Two most common approaches taken by the enterprise to attain said objective are out sourcing of design, and effective reuse of their intellectual capital. In either case product lifecycle management is powerful enabler, that dictates for integrated information systems that cover all phases of lifecycle. Also, multidisciplinary teams sharing information at global level, during product development and in the phases beyond call for collaborative information systems. Born in CIM, PLM holds the promise for seamlessly integrating information throughout the phases of product’s lifecycle[1]. Using Teamcenter enterprise as PLM system, in this paper we instantiate some customized views, with discussion about related PLM aspect. Then we propose a trace and track system for physical product after it has been delivered to user. PLM concept with support of electronic product code information system(EPCIS) has been extended to ePLM