Deployment Methodology of Distributed PLM Platform Architecture

This paper proposes a novel methodology of distributed PLM platform deployment. It efficiently incorporates PLM technologies to support collaborative product development in a global enterprise with multiple distributed sites. The methodology systematically analyzes a company's PLM requirements from the Organizational, Application, and Data perspectives. A customized network configuration plan can then be developed for the company to build up a performance-oriented, cost-effective, and easy-to-maintain collaborative PLM platform. A case study is conducted to verify the feasibility of our method. The promising result of the case study gives rise to the potential and possibility to derive further research based on this work.