Design and Manufacturing Support System Enabling Consistent Utilization of Digital Data

摘要

Product data management (PDM) has entered widespread use in recent years. Although this system has been developed to execute unified management of digital data from product design through manufacturing, it is not yet able to utilize digital data efficiently at each phase of product development. Toshiba has constructed a support system with PDM as the core. Using this system, digital data for products can be utilized throughout the design, logistics, and manufacturing departments. The system makes it possible to share attribute information on a product model between an upstream design department and downstream logistics and manufacturing departments when developing manufacturing equipment for an indent order. The development lead time can be shortened through real-time grasping of the situation regarding the applicability of standard parts, estimated machining cost of new parts, and logistics.