Gain control of your data to unleash engineering potential

PDM stands for product data management. Product data management is a system that centralizes product-related data and processes. Engineers use PDM software to track revisions, manage change orders, generate Bills of Materials (BOMs), and more.

PDM software helps companies bring products to market faster by bringing all project data into one place. This reduces time spent on low-value tasks and increases both product development agility and collaboration.

PDM captures the entire history of your designs by integrating with your design and business tools to manage data and automate workflows and engineering processes.

Product data management helps you take control of your project data so you can: 

• Increase product development agility: Experience real-time access to data from anywhere with multi-CAD integration. With PDM, your design workflow adapts to your business. 
• Improve internal and external collaboration: Share 2D or 3D views of your work with others, even those outside your company's firewall, and get comments and feedback directly inside your PDM software. 
• Reduce tedious processes: Easily find and access files you want to replace, reuse, or copy to use in new designs. Use existing design data to spend less time searching and more time doing. 
• Decrease errors and improve product quality: Automate engineering change orders, revision control, BOM management, and more. Keep your engineering processes under control with PDM software. 

Product data management (PDM), product lifecycle management (PLM), and enterprise resource planning (ERP) are complementary systems. PDM integrates with CAD software and tracks changes, revisions, and design history automatically as engineers and designers work. ERP capabilities focus on business execution processes such as inventory, logistics, and financials. PLM capabilities focus on everything about a product—from concept through engineering to production—and provide processes that connect everyone involved in the product lifecycle to a central source of information. 

A PDM system manages design and engineering data, while a PLM system manages business processes involved in the product lifecycle, such as new product introduction, requirements management, supplier collaboration, quality management, and more.

A product data management system centralizes product-related data and automates engineering processes. Engineers use a PDM system to track revisions, manage change orders, and generate bills of materials (BOMs). 

Using a PDM system helps ensure that everyone in your organization is working with up-to-date, accurate data while enabling greater collaboration across internal and external stakeholders. PDM also automates engineering processes, reducing time spent on low-value tasks and speeding up time to market.