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在数字化仿真应用普及方向的发展趋势。
数字化仿真应用普及
随着企业对生产制造过程的仿真和管理的需求不断加大，全球三大PLM厂商UGS-Tecnomatix（已被西门子收购）、达索-Delmia、PTC-Polyplan均已拥有了自己的数字化制造解决方案，开始了产品生命周期的一个新阶段的应用探索。通过数字化仿真企业可以节约产品研发、生产准备和生产节拍制定等许多成本，并可以节约大量的时间。
数字化仿真主要分为两个方面，一是产品生产制造的仿真，另一方面是管理过程的仿真。
产品生产制造的仿真主要应用在航空航天、汽车和电子等复杂、大型制造行业中，一个产品研制的完成需要较长的时间，复杂度比较高，如果按照传统的生产流程，在产品形成和测试过程中，需要耗费大量的人力和物力进行验证，这些工作需要耗费企业大量的成本，而且测试并不意味着一次性成功，有了数字化仿真，就可以通过在计算机上进行大量的测试和验证工作，大大节省了成本和时间。
管理过程的仿真主要是管理者在制定新的业务过程的时候，按照传统的做法，需要进行较长的适应和磨合期，而且如何进行已有业务规则的调整，需要实际的人员参与，形成的周期比较长，对于企业的管理是一个很大的挑战。有了数字化仿真，管理者可以通过PLM系统仿真业务规则的制定和执行过程，生成相关的数据，制定相关的业务过程，进行仿真，在仿真的过程中发现问题进行改进，节省了成本，提高了管理过程的可控制性。管理以人为本，辅以先进的信息技术，才能真正提高企业的管理水平。
现在各主要PLM厂商主要集中在产品生产制造的仿真研究上，管理过程的仿真还是一个新的领域，在今后的几年将会是PLM应用的热点。
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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 the popularization of digital simulation applications. Digital transformation network szhzxw.cn
Digital simulation is widely used
With the increasing demand for simulation and management of manufacturing processes, the world’s three largest PLM manufacturers, UGS-Tecnomatix (acquired by Siemens), Dassault Delmia and PGC-Polyplan, have their own digital manufacturing solutions and have begun to explore a new stage in the product life cycle. Through digital simulation, enterprises can save many costs such as product development, production preparation and production timing, and can save a lot of time. Digital transformation network szhzxw.cn
Digital simulation is mainly divided into two aspects, one is the simulation of product manufacturing, the other is the simulation of management process.
The simulation of product production and manufacturing is mainly used in complex and large-scale manufacturing industries such as aerospace, automotive and electronics. The completion of a product development takes a long time and is relatively complex. If the traditional production process is followed, a lot of manpower and material resources are needed to verify the product formation and testing process. And the test does not mean a one-time success, with digital simulation, you can carry out a lot of testing and verification work on the computer, greatly saving cost and time. Digital transformation network szhzxw.cn
The simulation of management process mainly means that when managers develop new business processes, according to traditional practices, they need to carry out a long adaptation and running-in period. And how to adjust existing business rules requires the participation of actual personnel. And the formation cycle is relatively long, which is a great challenge for enterprise management. With digital simulation, managers can simulate the formulation and implementation of business rules through the PLM system, generate relevant data, formulate relevant business processes, conduct simulation, and find problems in the simulation process for improvement, saving costs and improving the control of the management process. Management people-oriented, supplemented by advanced information technology, can really improve the management level of enterprises.
At present, the major PLM manufacturers mainly focus on the simulation research of product manufacturing. And the simulation of management process is still a new field, which will be the hot spot of PLM applications in the next few years. Digital transformation network szhzxw.cn
