PDMPlus Configuration Management Functionality

Inside PDMPlus : Overview l Applications l Capabilities l Functionality l Features l Benefits l Resources l Demonstration

PDMPlus simplifies and standardizes, then automates and checks, and finally tracks and reports on the numerous complex and interdependent tasks which configuration management experts, routine users, and occasional consumers of product configuration data must perform. The important configuration management functionality utilized by users of PDMPlus often includes baseline configuration management plus any or all of the following listed below:

Building and maintaining a product structure with or without the OEM’s PDM/CAD/BOM data
Identifying then managing parts and items in or outside of the original product structure
Access part information including part change history, alternate or substitute parts, superseded parts, supplier part numbers, and authorized sources
Defining and tracking configuration items over the extended lifecycle
Creating and archiving snapshots of baseline configurations over years of asset use
Managing the complexity of multiple simultaneous changes to the established configurations
Populating and maintaining a configuration database of authority with a secure vault
Uploading and managing document libraries with version and associativity control
Enforcing industry standards, best practices, and company rules internally and with suppliers and service partners
Maintaining and tracking relationships across multiple levels of product structure granularity and configuration history
Associate change objects such documents, item, parts, contracts, projects, requirements with the necessary many-to-many, one-to-many, many-to-one relationships preserved
Perform multi-level searches for any object type such as parts, documents, or As-Builts
Performing where-used analysis, effectivity searches, associativity queries, traceability audits, CSAR tracking, and impact assessment
Identify “Where-Used” information for parts and assemblies with graphical views showing single- and multi-level used-on along with products, quantity, and project information
Creating, evaluating, reviewing, approving, and incorporating configuration change objects and proposed changes
Performing configuration status accounting
Automatically receive the latest document revision information to avoid erroneous impact assessment with previous revisions and change history immediately available for review
Tracking and logging of tasks, communications, notifications, and requests
Configuring role-based access, views, and control for colleagues, suppliers, and service partners
Automating workflows and dashboards of individual users and larger processes
Generating standard and custom reports
View, print and export IPL, Configuration Item Structure, As-Configured and Used-On information in expandable tree or graphical formats.
Collecting and analyzing performance metrics
Securing and projectizing product configuration data
Produce records of certification or compliance and supporting audits
Sharing CM data with other applications, processes, and groups