This IBM Redbooks Publication documents the Product Development Integration Framework (PDIF) architectural approach towards Enterprise Integration around the Product Lifecycle Management application space. The primary focus being the integration of Product Data Management (PDM) systems to other PDM systems and PDM systems to Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems, mainly SAP.

The objective of this Redbooks Publication is to document the lessons learned (best practices) and articulate the Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) and Integration Framework that the PDIF team has developed over numerous customer engagements.

This Redbooks publication is defined for an audience of Business Analysts, Software Engineers, IT Architects, and IT Specialists.

Part 1 - Background

Chapter 1. Product Lifecycle Management overview

Chapter 2. SOA Reference Architecture for PLM

Chapter 3. Product Lifecycle Management Standards overview

Part 2 - Scenarios and patterns

Chapter 4. Business scenario: A day in the life of Trucks, Inc.

Chapter 5. PLM Services 2.0: The neutral PLM integration language

Chapter 6. Implementing end-to-end Business Process Management

Chapter 7. Achieving business flexibility with a service-oriented architecture

Part 3 - Working examples

Chapter 8. Overview of working examples

Chapter 9. SOA realization of integrated PLM solutions: Working examples

Chapter 10. A framework to develop and run flexible PLM Services 2.0 based solutions

Chapter 11. Design and implementation of an engineering change scenario including SAP integration

Chapter 12. SOA realization of integrated PLM solutions: Working examples

Appendix A. Additional material