Advanced method to manage engineering changes throughout the product life cycle

Abstract

The focus of the project is to integrate the product data management (PDM) system, and a web based application system. Client-Server architecture is adopted for the proposed system. The proposed system uses the oracle 9i of the PDM system and an application server providing the web-based standard data access interface to enable the access of shared data. The CAD data related to the changes are mapped to the application server through virtual mapping technology. Database technologies like open database connectivity (ODBC) are used to abstract the data from the back end (server). Basic communication with the database has been achieved through the use of Structured Query Language (SQL).