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Plm And Xml White Paper

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Open product lifecycle data sharing
using XML
white paper:
PLM XML
The manufacturing industry is demanding unprecedented levels of interoperability
between PLM software applications to help accelerate critical business process
threads and achieve significant cost savings and time to market advantage. PLM XML
from EDS boosts interoperability by defining a set of W3C standard XML schemas and
associated services to facilitate open, high-content, product lifecycle data sharing.


PLM XML

Table of contents

Executive summary 1
Vision and objectives 1
PLM XML explained 2
PLM XML schemas 3
PLM XML characteristics 3
PLM XML in action – pipeline,
toolkits and services 4
PLM XML pipeline 4
PLM XML toolkits 5
Data adapters 5
Representation handlers 5
PLM XML in the enterprise 6
PLM XML for interoperability 6
PLM XML for collaboration 7
PLM XML for integration 8
PLM XML and standards 9
Summary 9

Table of figures

Figure 1 : PLM XML vision –
high-content data flow between
application domains 1

Figure 2 : A PLM XML document
fragment 2

Figure 3 : A PLM XML schema
fragment and tree hierarchy 2

Figure 4 : PLM XML services
populate and exploit the PLM
XML pipeline 4

Figure 5 : PLM XML jumpstart
application showing a crankshaft
example 5

Figure 6 : PLM XML facilitating
interoperability between
applications 6

Figure 7 : Flexible PLM XML
payload provides appropriate
levels of detail 7

Figure 8 : PLM XML in support
of enterprise application
integration 8


Interoperability issues within and between organizations using software applications to conceive, develop, engineer, manufacture,
and maintain products cost industry billions of dollars annually. Initiatives to improve interoperability in heterogeneous applica-
tion environments are therefore of vital importance, and consumers are demanding unprecedented levels of interoperability
between PLM...