To understand the functions of Fangtian PLM system, we first need to understand the difficulties currently encountered by enterprises in developing products themselves:

1. With fierce competition in the external market, how can companies make their design departments quickly give customers correct and reasonable quotations?

2. After we receive an order, how can we quickly design new products that meet the requirements and respond quickly to customers and the market?
3. When the work turnover of designers causes a large number of drawings to be lost, how to manage the design drawings of designers?
4. How do superiors allocate design tasks and monitor and approve the design process of products and designers?
5. Product design often determines 80% of the cost of a product. How can we reduce design costs and product costs from a development perspective?
6. How to quickly transmit the frequent changes in design results to other departments (such as process department, production department, and business department)?
7. How to find the latest and most similar drawing from a large number of drawings scattered on different computers?
8. How to extract product design BOM from CAD data and process it into manufacturing BOM that can guide ERP production and procurement? 9. Can I browse and annotate design drawings without installing any CAD software?

Fangtian PLM (Product Lifecycle Management) is a strategic business model that is product-centric and uses application software as a means. It uses a series of consistent business solutions to support the creation, management, distribution and use of product information throughout the entire enterprise and product life cycle (from concept to end of life cycle), integrating many elements such as processes and information. With Fangtian PLM, enterprises can better manage their knowledge-based assets and strengthen their product innovation, thereby achieving the core competitiveness of "adapting to the market, adapting to needs, and being flexible". It realizes product data management, project management, change management, collaborative management, standardization management, safety management, etc., providing a scalable R&D management platform for manufacturing companies.

Key Features

01. Automatic encoding

Fangtian PLM system adopts a unique coding definition method, which can handle various types of coding definitions. There are two main methods: tree coding method and segmented coding method; it can define coding principles for the company's raw materials, parts, standard parts, finished products, equipment, tooling, etc. After defining each coding principle, you can directly generate the required code based on the coding principle.

02.CAD Integration

Fangtian PLM system can manage various types of documents. Currently, the system can directly manage more than 200 types of software. It is very convenient to add some unknown types of software files. Each type of software needs to define a template file of that type. CAD system interface (Autocad, CAXA, Solid Edge, Solid Works, UG_Ⅱ, Pro_e, Ideas, word, Excel...). Interface with electronic CAD systems such as PROTEL.

03. Hierarchical permissions

Establish the company's departments and the personnel under each department, including the user's ID, name, password, role, department, etc.

04. File Management

Fangtian PLM system is built on the basis of distributed file management system. Distributed file cabinets can be built on local area network or wide area network. File cabinets can be on one machine or on multiple machines. The so-called file cabinet is a physical space for storing graphic and text file information. Each file cabinet needs to define the access rules of the file cabinet. The definition of access rules of each file cabinet can be varied.

05. Image and document management

The main management include design document management and management document management, archiving management, borrowing management, blueprint issuance management, circulation management, feedback form management, controlled library management, drawing and document approval management, drawing and document change management, etc.

06. Project Management

The main tasks include project classification management, project establishment management, project process management, project approval, project document management, and project monitoring.

07.Product Design Management

It mainly consists of template registration, structural design, product structure query, specification design and other parts.

08.Approval of drawings

A series of efficient and practical auxiliary tools, the browser can support the output formats of hundreds of design software; the process approval of graphic files can be approved, and errors can be marked and returned to the submitter.

09. Product Configuration Management

Configuration management provides the function of rapid duplication for the entire product design; when designing a new product structure and finding that there is a mature component structure that has been designed before, the required structure can be copied from the previous product.

10. Process BOM management

The process personnel reconfigure the product design tree into a process tree and give the processing attributes of each component, such as raw material processing, blank material outsourcing, raw material outsourcing, production outsourcing, etc.

11. Process route management

There are mainly material management, equipment file management, material quota, process management, process route compilation, etc. In this process route compilation module, the process route, equipment used, process and other information for each component are edited. Process cards are edited for components, etc.

12. Process card management

Manage various process cards, including machining cards, heat treatment cards, etc.

13. Design cost management

There are two main modules: price management and cost calculation. Price management gives the purchase price or manufacturing cost price of each component. Then the cost price of the entire design tree or component is calculated in the cost calculation module.

14. Customize Workflow

The workflow definition mainly includes workflow approval process, graphic document approval process, graphic document change process, graphic document borrowing process, ISO9000 standard rule definition, knowledge rule definition, design knowledge management, etc. The workflow definition can generate different templates, and different projects can choose different templates for workflow approval. In this module, you can also define a variety of graphic document approval templates, and select the appropriate graphic document approval process according to different actual conditions.

15. Visual project monitoring

Project monitoring is the ability to monitor the progress of the workflow in real time.
The network plan diagram is to plan in advance who will do each step of the project and how long it will take. It is then filled in according to the actual situation and the reasons for delays are given. The leader can then monitor the progress of the specific work in real time.

Application Value

01. Manage data throughout the product life cycle through Fangtian PLM to drive product innovation

Fangtian PLM focuses on product structure management and all technical data related to the product, including component parts, design drawings, engineering drawings, process documents, product documents, materials, APQP, etc. It also realizes data management throughout the product life cycle by connecting CAD, ERP, OA and other information management systems.

02. Applying Fangtian PLM to manage design projects can achieve efficient quality management of design products

Fangtian PLM Project Collaboration Platform is an integrated tool platform for multiple project members to work together to complete project tasks. The main functions of the project collaboration platform include: project team establishment, project planning and task decomposition, automatic task distribution strategy to achieve the front-end relationship and automated workflow of work, use of color to distinguish the status of tasks to facilitate task tracking and monitoring, project data management and role-based control, hierarchical control of sub-projects and projects, so as to achieve integrated management of people, processes and data.

Fangtian PLM project management module integrates the concepts of quality systems such as APQP and FMEA, and can help enterprises achieve excellent and successful application in APQP management.

Enterprises can track and monitor the progress of projects through Gantt charts and the execution status of project task plans, coordinate the smooth operation of projects, and manage project output results.

Fangtian PLM can also achieve hierarchical control of project teams in project planning.

The project manager only needs to define the project team or project plan, and then each team leader will maintain their own team members and the stages they are responsible for. According to foreign standard project management systems, the project manager is generally responsible for the establishment and maintenance of the project team and maintains all project plans. In the actual implementation process of this method, especially in large projects, the project manager often has too much work to maintain the project plan.

03. Fangtian PLM provides a change data management solution to ensure the integrity, accuracy and consistency of product data

For various reasons, enterprises need to make frequent engineering changes. Compared with the traditional manual method, Fangtian PLM change management is characterized by the complete integration of the review of change orders and the implementation of data changes. In other words, the approval of the change order review is equivalent to the completion of the data change. It can act on all types of product data objects and complete the overall change of the data object set, thereby ensuring the integrity, accuracy and consistency of product data.

04. Fangtian PLM realizes the collaborative work between enterprises and upstream and downstream, as well as different departments within the enterprise

Enterprises can collaborate with suppliers through Fangtian PLM to ensure that they understand the supplier's component design and production progress, and control the quality of components to reduce the risk of product quality defects, reduce the company's inventory, and ensure that products can be put on the market on time. In addition, enterprises can also use Fangtian PLM to incorporate customer feedback on product quality into product improvement designs, so as to develop and design products that customers like ahead of competitors and improve customer satisfaction.

Fangtian PLM provides sharing of all design data, so that process personnel, production departments, and purchasing departments can quickly understand the dynamics of design data and process data and adjust their work in a timely manner, thus improving the company's responsiveness. Fangtian PLM also integrates with CAD, ERP, OA and other information management platforms to open up data circulation within the enterprise, helping the enterprise eliminate information islands.

05. Fangtian PLM significantly reduces product costs through standardized product management

Fangtian PLM standardizes product design and work specifications by setting standards for output tasks and work processes. In addition, companies can also improve the standardization of company materials and reduce production costs based on the statistical analysis of standard parts, general parts, and special parts provided by Fangtian PLM, as well as the analysis of the number of parts references. In addition, group companies can also uniformly manage group materials and reduce procurement costs through group procurement.

06. Fangtian PLM ensures data security management throughout the product life cycle through system security management

Fangtian PLM divides data objects and data attributes into multiple permission definitions horizontally and vertically: function, data, classification, paging, view and query, a total of six types. Enterprises can determine which permissions people in different roles have. In addition, enterprises can ensure that all data in the same project group work in a coordinated and consistent manner by determining different permission levels for different departments, different project groups, and different data objects at different stages.