Collaborative Digital Data Management for Design and Production

Developing high quality products with lower costs and in significantly less time is the key point for competitive strategies of companies. For complex and large variety of products this mission can be accomplished by the help of Concurrent Engineering techniques which require a collaborative way of working of relevant departments in a factory.In this paper, the way of constructing the digital environment in order to supply concurrent management of Product Data and management of product structure for different configurations and their engineering changes via workflows in the Product Life Cycle Management, PLM is described. Digital Mock Up, DMU the main element in simulating, testing and demonstrating the virtual product is another concern that is considered.