Managing product data goes beyond managing drawings.

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Product-data management can do more than ascendency drawings and releases,
says Michael Leach, PDM director at Cooper & Lybrand Consulting
Center for Operational Technology in Burlington, Mass. Optimally,
he says, PDM implementation should compare the performance of a design
or proces to historical data, and perhaps draw conclusions upon similarities
to past throw outs from that comparison.

Currently there is a general misunderstanding among PDM software vendors
and engineers who use the software about the objectives of PDM "When
you ask family to define what ...