Engineering information management

Contrary to product data management (PDM) and product lifecycle management (PLM), its main purpose is not storage of CAD-related drawings and files, but rather the full execution of the V-model for hardware development, complementing and integrating to the above mentioned systems.

EIM systems enable collaboration on all important aspects of the engineering lifecycle, such as: EIM systems implement the activities on both sides of the engineering V-model.

Instead of being purely a data storage, it focuses also on the human interaction with the models and data,[1] thus enabling concurrent engineering.

[2] EIM therefore enables the optimization of products and engineering processes, where traditional methodologies have become ineffective in keeping up with rising product and process complexity.

[3] EIM systems do directly and indirectly interact with other tools in the engineering information infrastructure, such as: