Industrial software is a "two" of the integration of agents. Industrial software is able to mechanization, electrification and automation of production equipment, with digital, networked and intelligent features of the core technology. It is not a general sense of the software, but a very complicated systematic project, whose ultimate goal is to provide a product life cycle (PLM) Network-based, collaborative-based, open platform for product design and manufacturing.
In recent years, the manufacturing sector in India’s rapid development. India’s manufacturing industry is facing the manufacturing industry to readjust the industrial structure. India’s manufacturing industry is moving in with their own products, independent technology, patented self-direction; is moving in the green, environmental protection, energy saving, emission reduction direction. In such circumstances, India’s manufacturing industry is more than ever need to continuously improve the internal management of the level of integration of external resources to accelerate the pace of product innovation, shorten delivery time to improve their competitiveness.
PLM to improve the competitiveness of enterprises
"Eleventh Five-Year " Plan and long-term scientific and technological development" explicitly proposed to build India into an innovative country, stressing India’s manufacturing industry to go their own innovative way, persist in using information to promote industrialization, widely used in high technology and advanced applicable technologies to transform upgrading of the manufacturing, efforts to achieve from the "Made in India" to "Created in India", and create more well-known brands with independent intellectual property rights play an important manufacturing industries to the economic development of the supporting role. More manufacturing enterprises pay more attention to product R & D and technological innovation, extensive promotion and deepening of PLM-related technology applications, a comprehensive upgrading of the manufacturing enterprise product innovation and R & D management capabilities to enhance design innovation and R & D management in areas such as seeking further improvements, efforts to explore from the "manufacturing" to "create" the road to success.
PLM technologies and solutions, is the second CAD / CAM developed after a new generation of product innovation and collaborative management solution that will not only help companies produce a variety of information about the product, but also can manage, share and reuse data on these products. PLM is essentially based on manufacturing enterprises as the core product data to address from the user's needs, order information, product development, process design, manufacturing, maintenance repairs throughout the life cycle of the different types of data integrated management, process management and cross-sectoral , cross-regional and supply chain to work problems; with information into a means to change the business of traditional design, manufacture and management model, to provide enterprises with product innovation and the whole process of information integration and a unified platform for business collaboration, thus ensuring the enterprise product data security, and knowledge management, the comprehensiveness and effectiveness, enhance their response to market demand, the rapid reaction capability, shorten product development cycles, reducing development costs and further improve product quality.
Focus on different modes of implementation of the different
In recent years, India’s Manufacturing Information, in addition to PLM, the ERP become another hot spot. PLM and ERP together with the development of manufacturing information into two main directions, and has been the global information technology industry and manufacturing industry generally recognized. PLM is the enterprise product innovation-centric business strategy, focusing on the Hennessy, and create value; while the ERP is enterprise resource management-centric business strategy, focused on Removing the Evils and cost savings. According to the survey, in the different sectors of manufacturing enterprises in both breadth and depth of showing different characteristics, PLM product form complex, large parts of the application of a variety of discrete manufacturing industry is particularly prominent.
PLM and ERP services were focused on different types of manufacturing industries. ERP focus on in the process manufacturing industries, such as steel, petroleum, electric power, pharmaceuticals, etc., but PLM is more focused on discrete manufacturing, such as aircraft, cars, equipment, 3C products (communication, consumer products and computers) and so on. India typical discrete manufacturing scenarios have the following two modes:
First, the discrete manufacturing production mode. Products such as cars, 3C products, electronic / electrical appliances, home appliances, watches and so on, which is characterized by: large number of products, a wide range of products on 10000 annual output and even hundreds of thousands of documents, and enterprise products are produced each year dozens of or even hundreds of varieties of each products are designed in accordance with market requirements modified, local innovation, and the rest according to standardized manufacturing. Discrete manufacturing production process is a typical pattern: first, sales of new products, market research needs; Secondly, the design department in accordance with product demand from the enterprises in the selected product design, product modification similar design, and then complete the new product The design and evaluation by the department concerned; again, and production departments to build a whole new manufacturing process documents; final production sector procurement of raw materials, new products and other mass production.
Secondly, discrete manufacturing single-piece and small-batch mode. Products such as aircraft, aerospace, motorcycles, equipment, production lines, discrete manufacturing single-piece low-volume model features are: production of small, usually single-piece and small quantities, no more than a few hundred pieces, while the structure of each product more complicated, the price correspondingly high. Discrete manufacturing single-piece model of a typical small-batch process is: first, the sales department with a specific user communication, understanding the product needs, pricing and the ability to demonstrate products and obtain orders for the product; Secondly, the design department of orders according to user requirements from businesses to select the original design of similar products innovative design and modification design, product design and after the completion of the relevant departments of the evaluation; later, and discrete manufacturing industries like the production model of the process the finished product process, procurement and manufacturing . And production patterns are different is that manufacturing companies need to the user on-site installation and commissioning of new products.
From the above two kinds of manufacturing model can be seen, although the overall enterprise information technology needs are similar, but different modes of production in the production process of the information technology needs and focus is different, and as the industry different, and sometimes this difference is relatively large. So how can companies in the protection of information assets based on the original introduction of PLM, to ERP and PLM give full play to its maximum value of the enterprise and system suppliers are commonly faced with the responsibilities and challenges.
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