Abstract
In order to achieve rapid development while ensuring competitiveness and cost savings, digital virtual manufacturing is essential to die shops. Digital Virtual Manufacturing is a technology that facilitates effective product developments and agile productions by digital environments representing the physical and logical schema and the behaviour of real manufacturing system including manufacturing resources, processes and products. For applying digital virtual manufacturing to die shop, engineering information managements of products, manufacturing process and resources are vital. This paper proposes and implements the PLM approach, for achieving effective engineering collaboration of engineering activities. This paper also presents detailed procedures, examples, and considerations of PPR managements in die shops.
Keywords:Automotive die shop, PLM (Product Lifecycle Management), PPR (Product, Process, Resource), MPM (Manufacturing Process Management)