Successful PDM Implementation for SMBs

摘要

Small and medium-sized manufacturing businesses (SMBs) are implementing product data management (PDM) to improve efficiency and reduce time to market. Given limited resources, these organizations need to carefully plan and phase their PDM implementations to ensure success.rnThe market for PDM software and services among SMBs will grow faster than the market for enterprise PDM solutions, says CIMdata, and will represent 29 percent of the market by 2012. SMBs are increasingly implementing PDM solutions to address critical issues like the data explosion that results from the move to 3D CAD, reducing errors and rework, and collaborating more efficiently around the globe.rnThe benefits of implementing PDM in larger enterprises (such as reducing the time spent searching for data, improving accuracy of that data, and more efficient change processes) are equally important, if not more critical, to the success of SMBs, and ment.