What is Product Development Management (PDM)?

A DEFINITION OF PDM

Product development management or PDM is an all-encompassing approach for innovation, new product development and introduction (NPDI) and product information management from ideation to end of life. PDM Systems as an enabling technology for PDM integrate people, data, processes, and business systems and provide a product information backbone for companies and their extended enterprise.

Why PDM?

Innovation and new product development are essential for most companies to sustain future revenue growth. Nowadays customers demand more new products in shorter time intervals, often customized to their own needs. They want more attractive designs, better performance, better quality, lower prices, and instant availability. To meet these needs companies have to be able to collaborate closely within their own organization and with partners and suppliers located in various parts of the world. At the same time companies have to manage increasing product and manufacturing complexities due to a quickly growing number of environmental and regulatory rules and requirements.

Your Problem

Faster and requirements of higher standard of new product introductions is a huge challenge for most organizations today because of their traditionally serial, fragmented, manual, and paper based processes. The result is that many companies suffer from NPDI practices that are slow, resource intensive, costly, inflexible, provide little visibility, and are difficult to manage and control.

Our Solution - iPDM

Through their ability to integrate all product related data and processes and to eliminate boundaries in the value chain, Oriental’s iPDM Systems can significantly reduce non-value added activities and enable stakeholders to collaborate in real time using a consistent set of information throughout the entire product lifecycle.

Main features of iPDM

Project status control

Oriental’s iPDM give company full control on all project status in many different angles, whether you are top management, team leader or individual project member you will able to keep track of project information that make your work more effective.

iPDM users have individual view of projects to keep track of milestone of each phase of development or process.

Schedule and Checklist

Company will be able to define activities and milestone for the product development process for each phase. Each activity will be controlled by planned and actual complete time. Alert will be able to set according to these information. Revision of project schedule will keep in history log to provide clear history of the project development trail.

 

For the company using iPDM one of the most significant benefits is to be able to systematically management the development process in workflow environment. Company will be able to define activities and documents required for each phase and iPDM will act as a centralized platform for user to submit, share, comments and approve documents and files required for each development phase.

KPI measurement and Workload Analysis

Company will be able to define KPI(Key Performance Indicator) in various criteria such as project completion, project cost, delay of project for whole company and iPDM will be able to automatically calculate and generate report based on KPI criteria.

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