在PLM的发展过程中，根据国内外PLM厂商的发展动向，以及对PLM关键技术的研究，PLM在未来几年将围绕以下几个重要的方向发展：

PLM未来发展方向一：可定制化的解决方案；

PLM未来发展方向二：高效多层次协同应用；

PLM未来发展方向三：多周期产品数据管理；

PLM未来发展方向四：知识共享与重用管理；

PLM未来发展方向五：数字化仿真普及应用；

这些重要的发展方向将决定PLM的整个市场普及推广，并给PLM带来前所未有的应用高潮。今天来了解一下PLM在高效多层次协同应用方向的发展趋势。

高效多层次协同应用

随着PLM的快速发展，PLM已经逐步覆盖从产品市场需求、概念设计、详细设计、加工制造、售后服务，直到产品报废回收等全过程的管理，并逐步实现了与企业其它信息系统的深入集成。目前国内外许多集团型企业也在使用PLM系统，同时产业链上的上下游企业之间也需要通过PLM实现协同，因此伴随着的问题就是解决产品不同阶段、不同参与人员和组织之间的协同，因为只有高效的协同应用，优化的业务过程，才能真正提高企业的工作效率，缩短响应时间，为企业带来更好的利润回报。协同的应用根据企业的业务需求可以分为多个层次，我们把协同应用分为三个大的层次：项目管理协同、业务过程管理的协同和业务数据协同管理。

项目管理的协同可以在整个企业不同部门之间或者产业链的上下游企业之间应用，主要反映的任务的关系和结果，这对于解决集团型企业应用非常适合；

业务过程管理的协同可以在部门内部或者部门之间应用，主要反映日常业务的执行过程和结果，满足了企业日常工作的自动化协同；

业务数据的协同管理是最基本的协同，通过数据的生命周期阶段或者状态在不同人员之间形成协同，保证业务数据在整个生存周期的正确和完整。

当前主流的PLM产品都分别提供了这几个层次的协同解决方案，例如UGS的TeamCenter产品提供了企业协同、工程协同、制造协同、项目协同、需求协同、可视化协同、社区协同等不同的解决方案，这些协同方案针对不同的需求产生。

高效多层次协同不但强调协同方案的“多”，更强调不同协同方案的一致性和完整性，提供企业产业链之间、企业部门之间、部门内部等多层次的协同的同时，提高不同协同之间的集成和协同方法的不断探索，实现不同多层次协同的无缝集成。目前PLM系统在协同方面的应用还主要停留在企业内部业务规则和业务数据的协同，虽然部分企业也实施了项目管理，但是和PLM系统的高效紧密集成还有一定距离。

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What are the future trends of PLM?

In the development process of PLM, according to the development trend of PLM manufacturers at home and abroad, as well as the research on PLM key technologies, PLM will develop around the following important directions in the next few years: digital transformation network szhzxw.cn

Future development direction of PLM 1: Customizable solutions;

PLM future development direction 2: Efficient multi-level collaborative application; Digital transformation network szhzxw.cn

PLM future development direction 3: multi-cycle product data management;

PLM future development direction 4: Knowledge sharing and reuse management;

PLM future development direction five: digital simulation popularization and application;

These important developments will determine the overall market adoption of PLM and bring about an unprecedented upsurge in PLM adoption. Today, let’s take a look at the development trend of PLM in the direction of efficient multi-level collaborative applications. Digital transformation network szhzxw.cn

Efficient multi-level collaborative application

With the rapid development of PLM, PLM has gradually covered the whole process management from product market demand, concept design, detailed design, processing and manufacturing, after-sales service, to product scrap recycling, and has gradually realized the in-depth integration with other information systems of enterprises. At present, many group enterprises at home and abroad are also using PLM system, and the upstream and downstream enterprises in the industrial chain also need to achieve collaboration through PLM. Therefore, the accompanied problem is to solve the collaboration between different stages of products, different participants and organizations, because only efficient collaborative application and optimized business process can truly improve the work efficiency of enterprises. Shorten response time and bring better profit return to the enterprise. The application of collaboration can be divided into multiple levels according to the business needs of the enterprise.

We divide the collaborative application into three levels: project management collaboration, business process management collaboration and business data collaborative management.

The collaboration of project management can be applied between different departments of the whole enterprise or between upstream and downstream enterprises in the industrial chain, mainly reflecting the relationship and results of tasks, which is very suitable for solving the application of group enterprises.

The collaboration of business process management can be applied within or between departments, mainly reflects the execution process and results of daily business, and meets the automatic collaboration of daily work of enterprises. Digital transformation network szhzxw.cn

Collaborative management of business data is the most basic collaboration. Collaboration is formed between different personnel through the stages or states of the data life cycle to ensure the correctness and integrity of business data in the entire life cycle.

The current mainstream PLM products provide these levels of collaboration solutions, for example, UGS TeamCenter products provide enterprise collaboration, engineering collaboration, manufacturing collaboration, project collaboration, demand collaboration, visualization collaboration, community collaboration and other different solutions, these collaborative solutions are generated for different needs. Digital transformation network szhzxw.cn

Efficient multi-level collaboration not only emphasizes the “more” of collaborative schemes. But also emphasizes the consistency and integrity of different collaborative schemes. While providing multi-level collaboration between enterprise industry chains, enterprise departments. And departments, it also improves the integration between different synergies and the continuous exploration of collaborative methods to achieve seamless integration of different multi-level synergies. At present, the application of PLM system in collaboration still mainly stays in the collaboration of business rules and business data within enterprises, although some enterprises have also implemented project management. But there is still a certain distance between the efficient and tight integration of PLM system.