In the United States and other Western countries constantly brings up the banner of intellectual property rights to Chinese companies cut the time, innovation has begun to put a desk in Chinese enterprises, various government documents and media discussions, also indicates that Chinese enterprises should be based on the world, products Innovation has become a business only route. How to shorten product development cycles, improve quality, reduce costs, develop products with independent intellectual property Di, an enterprise in the fierce competition in the market to survive and to develop Zhong obtain the core issues, to solve these problems would have the help of modern tools, CAD, Pro / E and other design tools and PDM universal application of management tools, product innovation for the enterprise will lay a solid foundation.
With the gradual development of CAD technology and widely used, leading to a large number of e-business plan documents, and electronic chart in the number of documents tend to grow exponentially, in such circumstances, how to effectively manage these documents on an enterprise must face. This demand directly leads to the emergence of PDM technology, PDM truly achieved the integration of CAD, building information system in enterprises become an important milestone. However, after 10 years of PDM in China development today, basically followed the practice of foreign counterparts, PDM function seems to be a collection of rights management, version management, product structure management, data security management, design collaboration, life cycle and other functions Guan Li system, such a large system, the price of natural cheap, easily hundreds of thousands to millions in between, Zhi Shi 只有 small number of large, medium "Fu enterprises" to enjoy, not on the no Fuxiao Shou Er SMEs, high in the prices, leading to PDM in SMEs is difficult to promote the culprit.
Agile Consulting in early 2005, according to "China's demand for PDM applications and functions" on-line survey results show that, companies have chosen PDM system's motivation in first place is to solve the product specification drawings and technical documents management; second to use the existing technical documents quickly generate new products; again to resolve product data security and confidentiality; fourth with ERP and other applications of data integration; the fifth is to improve development efficiency. The results from the research perspective, firms choose PDM software solution products are mainly concerned about the standard drawings and technical documents such as basic management, but improvements in the design process does not top some degree of concern. Functional modules from the application of frequency of view: data management, rights management, version management companies in the use of PDM systems use 100%, spare parts management, reporting tools, storage and backup, product structure management, data security management and use of a relatively small frequency; and design collaboration, life cycle management functions essentially do not have to. However, PDM vendors to upper hand in the competition, often growing in complexity PDM functions, the system is too large, difficult to implement, can be imagined, product lifecycle management (PLM) has complied with the launch of this company kind of concept, the mainstream PDM vendors to open projects, Tian-yu and Tsinghua XT, also in response to this trend. But in fact, the huge costs and high demand of the enterprise itself has become an unbearable burden for SMEs.
However, the market is always no shortage of those who engage in Council, known as "ERP price killer," said the days of thinking the software group's laser positioning system in the 3-15 million of PDM, PDM obviously want to subvert the operation of the traditional manufacturers, while day Best Software Group Chairman and CEO of China denied the cold school price war, but several industry experts anonymity agreed that the 3-150000 location, price wars will be inevitable in the PDM market. Cold learning Chinese that day thinking PDM only focus the critical needs of business, document management, project management, product management, security permissions management needs of SMEs in general, while other functions for SMEs, difficult to implement, cost also high. "Why not spend 20% of corporate money, to solve 80% of the problem, rather than let the company spend 80% of the money to solve the problem of 20% does not matter what." Days of thinking, chairman and CEO of cold Software Group study Chinese asked. "To be blunt, that is, PDM vendors and sales staff, in order to achieve higher revenues, the enterprise misleading results." Cold learning Chinese that the days of thinking to do is to continue its long-cherished "affordable, on fast, with good" concept, so that domestic small and medium manufacturing industries can enjoy the fruits of information technology, PDM is no longer the patent is big business.
Chinese SMEs in the manufacturing sector, the proportions of most small and medium manufacturing enterprises is small, there is capital, technology and human resources so obviously inferior, and therefore eager to market to provide affordable PDM products. How to develop and promote the use of the PDM system for SMEs has become a small manufacturer to promote the innovation of products both our country and building an important part of our inescapable responsibility to PDM vendors. Days thought the software group to launch PDM system at very low prices, although price wars of the suspects, but if we can reduce the number of small and medium sized manufacturing enterprises using the threshold of PDM, we would rather that the price war has come the sooner the better.