Project Background

Chengdu Guoyi Electronics Technology Co., Ltd., established in April 2014, is a wholly-owned subsidiary of listed company ZhenChip Technology (300101). The company focuses on intelligent applications in the field of optoelectronic imaging and possesses core R&D capabilities in technologies such as "image signal processing, computer vision, image recognition, deep learning, and multi-objective optimization."

The company's business spans multiple fields including public security, transportation, and unmanned platforms. It has application cases in various scenarios such as safe city construction, image investigation, defect detection, emergency command, and intelligent traffic, positioning itself as a supplier of products and solutions in the domestic security surveillance domain. With technological advancements, the company incubates products around core technology directions like "image recognition, data processing, artificial intelligence, and operational planning," achieving digital and intelligent transformation in video image processing applications.

Project Goals

Through the implementation of the SIPM/PLM project, achieve the following goals:

1. Material Management: Implement strict control over the material generation process within the PLM system. Maintain standardization and uniqueness of materials through their characteristic parameter attributes, improve the commonality rate of product components, enhance product R&D efficiency, and strengthen the standardization of R&D.

2. Product Data Standardization Management: Promote the standardization of product data in the PLM system. Centralize and control system data templates, material classification coding, and build BOMs at various levels.

3. Product Structure Management: Optimize product structure management by establishing a comprehensive product management system. Utilize retrieval, duplication checking, and reuse to optimize product structures and promote modular design.

4. Drawing and Document Data Management: Manage all technical documents related to products through the PLM system, preventing the storage of such documents on individual engineer computers to avoid loss of company knowledge assets due to personnel turnover. Ensure centralized and unified management of all design data related to products, guaranteeing the integrity, consistency, and accuracy of enterprise product data. This also facilitates easy access to required data for R&D personnel and others within their authorized scope, enabling knowledge sharing and reuse.

5. Integrated Design and Manufacturing: Enhance collaborative work between design and manufacturing, achieve integrated management of design BOMs within the PLM system, integrate with design software, and improve the standardization and uniformity of R&D design.

6. Change Management: Execute all product design changes through the PLM system, comprehensively identify the impact range of changes, track change execution, and promptly close changes. Through categorization and statistics, analyze which product designs have more frequent changes and which are caused by design errors by engineers, closing the loop on R&D issues through the PLM system.

7. Electronic Design Management Platform: Build an electronic design management platform that closely integrates electronic design work with PLM system management to improve the efficiency of electronic design and strengthen its standardization. Complete the concept of integrating mechanical, electrical, and software design within the PLM system for more efficient and faster product management.

System Features

1. Coding Management: Implement a material and technical document coding management solution tailored to the company's needs through the SIPM PLM system. Achieve unique coding for each item via automatic coding in SIPM PLM.

2. Knowledge Base: Utilize the SIPM/PLM knowledge management module to establish a corporate knowledge base, enabling the accumulation and real-time sharing of enterprise knowledge, thus achieving efficient knowledge transfer and inheritance.

3. Document Templates: During the implementation, SIPM consultants conducted extensive business communications with the client to ensure that all data and document processes were thoroughly covered, fully digitized, and standardized. The system includes a process monitoring module to real-time track all online workflows, enhancing management efficiency and identifying areas for improvement.

4. Standardization of Review and Approval Processes

5. BOM Data Management

BOM Management: Centered around the design BOM, all design data is integrated in a structured manner to achieve effective control and management.

6. Effective Integration of the PLM System with 3D Design Systems

Based on drawings designed in 3D software, 3D models and engineering drawings are extracted via the PLM system's 3D interface and uploaded into the system. After undergoing the system's review and approval workflow, signed PDF drawing files are automatically generated.

Achieve organized association and management of models and technical documents throughout the product design process, centered around the product configuration list.

Use the product configuration list as a link to establish orderly associations among all drawings, documents, and technical data during the product lifecycle.

7. Electronic Design Interface Management: When electronic design interface work is completed and ready for submission, the system automatically matches components against the PLM design component library (matching rules are based on actual project requirements). The following scenarios typically occur during component matching:

A. Blue: A complete match (the component can be directly referenced and submitted).

B. Black: No match found (a new component must first be requested in the PLM system; once approved, it will be added to the design component list).

8. The system extracts schematics/component BOMs through the interface: Access the project management system, and upon entering the system, click on "My Data\Designing" where you can see the design that was just submitted as well as the schematic BOMs.

9. Conversion of Component BOMs to Electronic Design BOMs: Select the reviewed schematic, right-click and match components (components checked on the left indicate a one-to-one relationship with those in the system; unchecked components indicate a one-to-many relationship with those in the system, requiring selection). After clicking, a window will pop up on the right side, which may show several options. You need to select the appropriate one (if multiple options are shown, it means there are several items in the system that match the attributes of our schematic BOM).

10. Generate PCBA BOM: In the BOM Manager, add the component BOM (component library) and PCB board (parts library) after matching with the schematic.

After adding, the complete PCBA will include the component BOM and PCB board.

11. Build a Complete Product: Product Configuration List for Mechanical and Electrical Components

12. Schematic Management

13. Component Library Management:

【1】When the schematic design is completed and submitted via the interface for matching with the PLM design component list, if it is found that the PLM system lacks the components needed by the engineer, a new component must be applied for before continuing with the schematic design.

【2】The process for applying for new components is as follows:

A: Create a new component.

B: Obtain a code and fill in the component attributes.

C: Submit for process review to create a new component and add it to the design component list (including category, parameters, brief description).

14. PCB Diagram Management

15. EDA Project Management

By implementing the process module of the PLM system, the company achieves comprehensive management of its process modules and completes product process documentation.

16. Standardize and formalize the change management process to ensure full traceability of all technical data.

Manage changes through structured workflows and assigned tasks, enabling effective tracking and control. Additionally, leverage SIPM/PLM's powerful search tools to monitor all design changes in real time and maintain a complete change history for all company products.

17. Product Baseline Management

Product baselines are released, fully reflecting the customer's product design and manufacturing processes such as "material preparation — rough machining — precision machining," with each step being traceable. This provides excellent traceability for product design management.

Baseline Release

Summary

Through the successful implementation of the PLM system, Guoyi Electronics has enhanced its overall product management and improved the management of design and R&D processes. The integration of structural design software with the PLM system ensures the standardization and consistency of product design data. This has led to a gradual increase in both product management efficiency and design & R&D efficiency, improved the quality of R&D, and reduced product development costs. Data security and confidentiality have also been strengthened.

The implementation has centralized the management of all information throughout Guoyi Electronics' entire design process—from requirements, projects, products, design, materials, drawings, to documents—on a single digital platform. This enables design personnel to quickly search for and access data, significantly improving their work efficiency.

Through the continuous use of these modules, the PLM system will become a collaborative management platform encompassing all departments across the company.