Build The Product Development Process Management System Based On Lotus Domino / Notes

Innovation in products is the key force to market competition. Especial for enterprises, it is the capacity to develop new products that is one of the most important parts to the core competitive capacity. For the products becoming more and more complex, products development depends more increasingly on the effective operation of the whole development teamwork. It is necessary to develop an aided system of Product Development Process Management (PDPM), which can optimize the Product Development Process (PDP), accelerate the speed of the Product Development and help every member of the teamwork to correspond and communicate well.In the field of PDPM, it is the coordinated PDPM in the distributed environment that has become one of the advanced research areas. The paper, facing the PDP, makes a thorough study on the issues of PDPM that is based on network and sets up a system of the PDPM which is based on the Lotus Domino/Notes.Based on the summarize of the actuality and the trends of the PDPM's research all over the world and analysis of the advantages and disadvantage of the relative modeling methods, the paper brings forward to structure the system of PDPM, which center is the model of workflow.Lotus Domino/Notes can provide the technology of the safety establishment, network communication establishment and list serve. The Lotus Workflow, which is provided by the Lotus Domino/Notes groupware platform, not only accords with the Workfolw mechanism of the WFMC but also can be used to set up the model of the PDPM. After researched on the Lotus Domino/Notes, the paper states and structures a system of the PDPM on the basis of the Lotus Domino/Notes.How the system of PDPM collects data included in the product development and classified is discussed and solved by the paper. The paper brings forward and realizes data organized by the action and process. The paper both help users to layout, control and optimize process and creates conditions for the integrated management of the PDP.Finally, a primary system of the PDPM is built on the basis of the Lotus Domino/Notes. The flow is the core of the system. The system can hold out the decision-making and evaluation of the post design, co-development and development process. The system is composed by five subsystems, such as quality subsystems, cost subsystems, process subsystems, people subsystems and restriction management subsystems. The system realizes not only the quality management, cost control, process control, people management and restriction management in the PDP but also the integration of the managements above.