Integration of Mobile Device Features in Product Data Management Systems

Abstract

Mobile devices have evolved rapidly in recent years and have become an everyday commodity. The young mobile PLM market is still in its infancy. At present, companies have covered their business processes with stationary workstations while mobile business applications have limited relevance and have been used to a limited extent. Companies can cover their overall business processes more time-efficiently and cost-effectively when they integrate mobile users in workflows. Mobile device features have the potential to significantly support the product development process through interactive user interactions and make them more effective. Moreover, entirely new workflows can be defined and established by considering mobile situations in business processes, which were excluded from the outset in the stationary context. This paper presents a novel approach for the usage of mobile device features in PDM systems to enhance user experience through novel interaction methods.