Engineering IT Management on End-to-End PLM Structure in Automotive Sector

摘要

As of today, PLM infrastructure has key role on companies' processes with respect to their end-item quality whereas it also practically determines the company culture, validness of the data, complexity, singularity and most of all profitability. Moreover, in order to give birth to these integrated processes, systems of PLM are needed which are administrated by solution architects who are experts on both IT and engineering solutions. Occasionally, single tool is not capable of handling processes from beginning to end. For that reason, there occurs a demand in multiple softwares. These diverse programs have characteristic powerful aspects coming with their weaknesses as well and they determine companies' way of work. Nevertheless, they have tendency on creating complex flows on data and process. In order to avoid these interruptions and provide a single source of data, it is necessary to create end-to-end process on a single platform within the company. This is where the solution architects must lead this PLM journey for all departments according to their needs. Particularly in automotive sector, the journey starts with the requirements, which are then driven to functional and logical objects. The further phases are designing, manufacturing, planning and work instructions, which must be led by allocating the resources. It can be understood that all these functions require different expertise; however, traceability can only be handled on a linear flow so that the impact analysis and change management can work smoothly. In order to stand to those needs, solution architects should handle both IT and engineering requirements in order to create end-to-end process flow.