Workflow engine-driven universal product lifecycle management system framework for small and medium-size enterprises

PLM (product lifecycle management) is the management of the enterprise´s products all the way across their lifecycles in the most effective way. However, at present, the PLM system in the market is not very appropriate to the small and medium-size enterprises. This paper presents a workflow engine-driven universal PLM system framework, which is constructed by four layers: client layer, application layer, business logic layer, data layer. The workflow engine-driven universal PLM system framework can be directly used as the PLM system, or can be used to customize the autonomy PLM system for the small and medium-size enterprises. The workflow engine-driven universal PLM system framework is implemented by Java enterprise edition and service-oriented architecture, which has the advantage of lightweight, cross-platform, and so on.