Initial Configuration for Product Lifecycle¶

Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) is an app for managing the adjusted Bill of Materials (BoM) and tracking the product lifecycle based on the Engineering Change Orders (ECOs).

Installing the Product Lifecycle Management app (PLM)¶

To know the details, check this documentation: Introduction to Product Lifecycle in Viindoo.

Overview¶

After installation, you will find the total number of ECOs on the PLM Dashboard view.

The number of Engineering Change Orders(ECO).

This dashboard gives you an overview of the current situation of each change order type and quick access to create new change request. For the details of ECOs, click on the corresponding card to check the ECOs on each stage as in the image below:

Engineering Change Order configuration¶

You can set up different ECO types or tags for categorization by accessing the Configuration menu.

ECO type¶

You can define the ECO type here. To create an ECO type, access PLM ‣ Configuration ‣ ECO Types, click on New and fill in the information based on your engineering change process.

ECO Tags¶

ECO Tags are used to classify the ECOs for searching purposes. To create a tag, access PLM ‣ Configuration ‣ ECO Tags, click on New and fill in the suitable keyword.