CIMdata PLM Industry Summary Online Archive
May 2007
CIMdata News
Ask the Expert: Information Recycling for Catalogs
In the Ask the Expert column in Managing Automation, CIMdata's Director of Research, Ken Amann, answers this question about information recycling for catalogs:
Question : Several PLM suppliers highlight the reuse potential of manufacturing information. Have you seen any case of manufacturing information reuse for preparation of customer manuals?
Answer : Manufacturing information can be reused for customer manuals primarily for service and maintenance. For example, manufacturing information includes how a product will be assembled. That information can be used to define how a customer or service person would disassemble a section of the product in order to perform both routine and unexpected service or repair on a product. It can also be used to define the parts needed for service or maintenance.
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