I agree with Mr James' point. But I have yet to drink the PLM coolaid - to re-state, a good automated ECO/ECN system will include all aspects of design and production control, and will provide data views that all members of the company can use.
The requirement for a corporate 'embedded' information technology that is controlled by engineering and production should not be assumed, as the product management lifecycle has typically been a marketing activity. FWIW, these people do the PLM stuff: <www.opengroup.org/qlm/> PLMs, ERP systems, etc are all just variations on a theme - the Revision Control System - which morphed into ALMs, which morphed into ERPs, which morphed into... I will see your 100 inter-dependent SQL tables and raise you my two XML files... Brian Terrorist to DBAs From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]]On Behalf Of James, Chris Sent: Thursday, May 13, 2010 12:18 AM To: Moshe Valdman; [email protected] Subject: RE: [PSES] Monitoring dangerous materials - benchmarking Do you not use any form of PLM database for your products which holds all parts data, boms and change history? The one we use can integrate this function. Chris From: Moshe Valdman [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: 12 May 2010 20:57 To: [email protected] Subject: [PSES] Monitoring dangerous materials - benchmarking Hi all, As you know, there are several substances related requirements coming from the EN: RoHS, REACH, and other black and grey lists, some from directives and other from customers As a telecom manufacturer, we have a real problem to show our customers we are constantly updating our lists and verifying with our suppliers that they all comply with these lists. Since the lists are constatnly evolving, it makes the problem even bigger What can you suggest as a method/procedure which will cover this situation (both ensure we comply and convince our customers that we do) thanks in advance, Moshe David Heald <[email protected]> - This message is from the IEEE Product Safety Engineering Society emc-pstc discussion list. To post a message to the list, send your e-mail to <[email protected]> All emc-pstc postings are archived and searchable on the web at: http://www.ieeecommunities.org/emc-pstc Graphics (in well-used formats), large files, etc. can be posted to that URL. Website: http://www.ieee-pses.org/ Instructions: http://listserv.ieee.org/request/user-guide.html List rules: http://www.ieee-pses.org/listrules.html For help, send mail to the list administrators: Scott Douglas <[email protected]> Mike Cantwell <[email protected]> For policy questions, send mail to: Jim Bacher: <[email protected]> David Heald: <[email protected]>
