Siemens PLM Software Release Definition PLM (HD-PLM) Technical Framework

Recently, Siemens PLM Software, a subsidiary of Siemens Industrial Automation Business Unit, announced the release of the definition of PLM (HD-PLM) technical framework. HD-PLM can help decision-makers to make decisions with better quality and higher reliability more effectively in the whole product life cycle.
HD-PLM, which was first unveiled at the 2010 Shanghai World Expo, is a technical system that connects users with people, tools and relevant product information they need to make intelligent decisions, and reshapes cross-border decision-making. Through a variety of support devices, users can freely stay in a digital environment consistent with their roles and get personalized experience. HD-PLM can actively assist users in collaborative decision-making, and information will be clearly presented to users through highly intuitive visual demonstration and converted into knowledge., HD-PLM can help users to select the appropriate decision-making scheme by comparing the company's practice and current tasks.
Use data, give meaning, build knowledge, and accelerate understanding
In today's closely connected and highly competitive environment, enterprises need to quickly launch more innovative and high-quality products to cope with increasing market pressure. To achieve this successfully, people in different fields of the value chain need to make hundreds or even thousands of important decisions in the entire product life cycle. The quality and speed of these decisions have a profound impact on the success of the product in the market. However, every decision may be made based on a large and growing number of decentralized digital data information. However, the storage formats of these data are different. What makes this challenge even more difficult is that many product related decisions rely on a variety of knowledge from all over the world.
HD-PLM technology framework aims to effectively transform such large-scale, widely distributed and different data into knowledge through a complete set of tightly integrated solutions that run through the enterprise application product portfolio of Siemens PLM Software. This solution gives meaning to data through data interaction, and intuitively presents rich information, making data easier to be understood by users, thus greatly enhancing the quality of decision-making in the life cycle.
Defined decision-making system
HD-PLM technology framework defines how to help users make better decisions faster based on the following four basic principles, so as to devote more time to innovation:
1. Personality - Personalize the user experience and provide users with information necessary for task execution through identity recognition.
2. Collaboration - Assist users to actively make appropriate decisions by integrating, analyzing and monitoring information, notify users when actions need to be taken, and suggest partners to participate in decision-making.
3. Intuitive - provide "rich" information in an intuitive way, clarify users' understanding, and support users to find useful data in a variety of disciplines and materials.
4. Verification - use analytical techniques * to evaluate various alternatives, verify user decisions against practice, and record the practice of decision making for future reference.
For example, the HD-PLM driven system can identify that a specific user is not only a CAD operator, but also a power system engineer or airfoil designer. The system will automatically customize the workspace for his role to present the appropriate working environment required by the user. Next, the system will actively assist the user to complete the task, tell the user the problems to be solved, search for the information to be considered in the task completion process and other personnel who can cooperate with the user to complete the task, and complete the task with the user. Throughout the process, HD-PLM will help users understand information through an intuitive visual way, so that users can easily and quickly obtain more detailed information from multiple disciplines., The decision is verified through analysis technology and evaluation information based on field, enterprise and industry practice. Therefore, users can not only make more intelligent decisions, but also greatly improve their decision-making efficiency and confidence in their decisions.
No matter where the user is, the system can use a variety of support devices, including smartphones and tablets, to immediately transmit the necessary information related to this process to the appropriate user. HD-PLM can intelligently navigate, integrate and give meaning to a large number of widely distributed data, and then use the technology to intuitively and effectively process and distribute these information to help users establish shared resources within the enterprise and support "definition" decisions.
Joe Barkai, director of product lifecycle strategy at IDC Manufacturing Insights, said that, "Users are in great need of a platform for collaboration and information exchange. They want to use this platform to make more intelligent decisions and understand the impact of decisions on other stakeholders. A better decision support system allows people to 'understand' each other literally and substantially, communicate effectively through the platform, optimize and coordinate decisions, and meet each other's needs."
Rely on strong technical foundation
HD-PLM relies on the strong technical foundation built by the software innovation of Siemens PLM Software for more than 30 years. On this basis, HD-PLM will expand the vision of Siemens PLM Software by providing a global decision support environment through a series of seamlessly integrated PLM solutions. The upcoming NX digital product development software, Teamcenter digital lifecycle management software, and Tecnomatix digital manufacturing software will establish a continuous and intuitive decision support environment in distributed enterprises and throughout the product lifecycle. Users of integrated enterprise solutions can make decisions not only related to their work but also considering the impact on other upstream and downstream fields through cross domain information networks.
In another news release today, Siemens PLM Software focuses on how NX uses HD-PLM framework technology to closely cooperate with Teamcenter.
Chuck Grindstaff, Executive Vice President and Technical Officer of Siemens PLM Software, said: "The HD-PLM technology architecture is based on our tradition of breakthrough solutions, while taking full advantage of the software, hardware and connectivity technologies, which has raised our innovation to a new level. HD-PLM provides tools to support our product development team to produce general integrated software, identify, determine, and collect a large number of internal and external information of manufacturing enterprises, and then apply meaning to this through a consistent, reliable, and intuitive visual environment Some data. This approach enables the right people to immediately acquire the right knowledge in the right place and environment, and support rapid and more intelligent decision-making - we call it 'defined decision-making'. "