Development and integration of a PLM platform for the management of data in production systems

The automobile industry is pushing the boundaries for better technology and smarter production practices. Due to the need to keep up with today’s fast-paced economy, new models focused on top performance and efficiency which are now crafted using rapid prototyping. But this rapid prototyping gave a roadway for the growth of small and medium scale companies which mostly follows one-of-the kind production, is one of the manufacturing approaches to produce customized products based on requirements of customers while maintaining the quality and efficiency as mass production, but due to the one-of-the kind production, problems which are facing by the small and medium scale Industries are critical. The major problems of this type of production are 1.sequencing and scheduling the orders 2. Lack of an Advanced tool which helps to communicate and update the data in real time among the different departments within the company. This thesis work mainly focuses on these problems and gives a best practical approach for small and medium Scale companies which follows one-of-the-kind Production by implementing the Product life cycle management technique with other management techniques in an open source object-oriented software called Aras