Английская Википедия:Engineering information management
Engineering information management (EIM) is the business function within product development and specifically systems engineering that allows engineers to collaborate on a single source of truth of engineering data.
Contrary to product data management (PDM) and product lifecycle management (PLM), its main purpose is not storage of CAD-related drawings and files, but rather the full execution of the V-model for hardware development, complementing and integrating to the above mentioned systems.
Scope
EIM systems enable collaboration on all important aspects of the engineering lifecycle, such as:
- Requirements management
- Functional design
- Product architecture
- Detailed systems design and simulation
- Verification and validation
- Documentation
EIM systems implement the activities on both sides of the engineering V-model. Instead of being purely a data storage, it focuses also on the human interaction with the models and data,[1] thus enabling concurrent engineering.[2]
EIM therefore enables the optimization of products and engineering processes, where traditional methodologies have become ineffective in keeping up with rising product and process complexity.[3]
Interactions with the other engineering management systems
EIM systems do directly and indirectly interact with other tools in the engineering information infrastructure, such as:
- Computer simulation tools
- Automated hardware testing tools
- Product lifecycle and product data management systems[4]
- Enterprise resource planning tools
- Manufacturing execution systems
- Computer-aided design (MCAD) and electronic design automation (ECAD) tools
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