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- AOM
- Archive Object Management - involves organizing large data troves
- AECO PLM
- Architecture, Engineering, Construction, Operations, Plant Lifecycle Management
- BOM
- Bill Of Materials - This software stores the bill of materials of a product type as well as that of a specific instance of a product type. It can also store and manage configuration information giving, for example, all of the possible and/or permissible combinations of parts that could go to make up a specific product. The border between PDM and BOM is not entirely clear, but BOMs generally do not have design data beyond permissible configuration data, and PDMs generally do not hold the parts list for a specific instance of a product.
- BPM
- Business Process Management
- CAD
- Computer-Aided Design - Interactive computer graphics applications that enable users to create geometry accurately both as to-scale 2D illustrations and 3D digital models
- CAE
- Computer-Aided Engineering (Digital Product Simulation) - This acronym has traditionally been associated with software that does engineering calculations including simulations of the performance of parts, machines and systems according to the physics and/or chemistry of what they do and their environment.
- CAM
- Computer-Aided Manufacturing - This acronym has traditionally been associated with NC (or numerical control) and refers to systems that create machining codes that cause NC machine tools to create a part from a digital model of its geometry
- CFD
- Computational Fluid Dynamics
- DMPM
- Digital Manufacturing Process Management describes software that simulates and/or optimizes the manufacturing process, including robot programming, process planning, and assembly line balancing.
- DMS
- Document Management Solutions (or DM, Document Management)
- DMU
- Digital Mock Up
- DPS
- Digital Prototyping and Simulation
- ECM
- Enterprise Content Management
- EDM
- Enterprise Data Management
- EPC
- Engineering, Procurement, Construction
- ERP
- Enterprise Resource Planning, (or supply chain software)
- ESM
- Engineering Simulation Management is software that manages all the product and component simulation information on an enterprise-wide basis.
- GIS
- Geographic Information Systems
- ILM
- Information Lifecycle Management
- IT
- Information Technology
- MPM
- Manufacturing Process Management
- M&O
- Maintenance and Operations
- MVP
- digital Mock-up, Visualization and 3D Publishing
- NVH
- Noise, Vibration and Harshness
- OO
- Owner/Operator
- P&ID
- Process and Instrumentation Diagrams
- PDM
- Product Data Management is data management software specifically designed to store and manage product design and manufacturing information including product configuration information.
- PIM
- Product information management
- PLM
- Product Lifecycle Management is a vision and philosophy that seeks to transform the way discrete and process manufacturers do business. PLM promises many benefits including faster time to market, better quality products, and lower manufacturing costs. For their part, PLM suppliers offer powerful, feature-rich software packages designed to achieve these benefits. This software includes CAD, CAM, CAE, DMPM, PDM, ESM, and BOM. Indeed the software solutions offered to facilitate PLM are continuing to multiply and evolve. The principal method whereby PLM achieves its benefits is by catalyzing better collaboration between all disciplines, departments, divisions, and the supply chain of a manufacturing enterprise by capturing information at the point of creation and distributing it to all that can benefit from it in a form they can understand and at a time when most needed.
- ROI
- Return On Investment
- SBD
- Simulation-Based Design
- VPD
- Virtual Product Development