High-Tech Electronics
Requirements Analysis
♦ Low efficiency in cross-regional, multi-time-zone collaboration: R&D, manufacturing, packaging and testing, and suppliers are distributed globally, and the lack of a unified collaboration platform leads to delayed design data transmission, version confusion, and high communication costs.
♦ Complex BOM structures with frequent changes: Products have high levels of integration, deep BOM hierarchies, and a wide variety of components, with frequent design changes. Traditional BOM management struggles to ensure accuracy and real-time synchronization, increasing the risk of incorrect materials and production line stoppages.
♦ Disconnected hardware-software collaboration: Although software and hardware development proceed in parallel, their data remains fragmented due to the lack of a unified association mechanism, resulting in concentrated issues during integration testing, high rework costs, and uncontrollable project timelines.
♦ Growing pressure in compliance management: Simultaneous compliance with multiple international environmental and safety regulations such as RoHS, REACH, WEEE, UL, and FCC is required. Compliance status of materials is managed in silos, lacking automated screening and early warning mechanisms, posing risks of product recalls and export disruptions.
♦ Ineffective accumulation and reuse of knowledge assets: Under frequent product iterations, valuable experience such as typical circuit modules, PCB layout rules, and test cases is not archived in a structured manner. This results in high rates of redundant design in new projects and hinders the development of configurable, reusable, platform-based R&D capabilities.
Structural Design Management
SIPM/PLM offers leading CAD integration capabilities, supporting the integration of ultra-complex 3D assemblies and ensuring bidirectional data exchange between design tools and the PLM system, thereby enhancing design efficiency and data consistency. Through professional BOM lifecycle management, BOM changes are automatically synchronized to process planning, production, procurement, and the supply chain, effectively addressing the core characteristics of the high-tech electronics industry—rapid product iteration, high system integration, tight hardware-software collaboration, complex supply chains, and high levels of customization.
- Supports integration with mainstream CAD design software, enabling seamless connectivity of design data.
- Parallel management of multiple design alternatives: Allows simultaneous creation and management of multiple conceptual design schemes within PLM, with each scheme independently version-controlled and clearly structured, avoiding scattered files and version confusion.
- Professional BOM lifecycle management: BOMs can be traced back, compared, audited, and renumbered. BOM changes are automatically propagated from design to process planning, production, procurement, finance, and other departments, preventing material obsolescence and production line stoppages caused by design changes.
- Standardized design and change processes aligned with industry regulations, ensuring full compliance and control throughout the development cycle, and supporting rapid product certification for global market access such as CE, FCC, UL, and CCC.
- Enterprise-wide unified coding system that eliminates "one item, multiple codes" or "one code, multiple items," optimizes inventory structure, and reduces capital tied up due to material confusion in transportation and logistics enterprises.
- Personal visual work dashboards enhance work organization and execution efficiency for R&D personnel in multi-project parallel environments.
- Comprehensive standardization solutions help enterprises establish modular design standards, common parts libraries, and design reuse mechanisms, continuously improving component commonality and platform reusability.
Electronic Design Management
SIPM/PLM provides comprehensive support for the entire electronic design process management. It deeply integrates with mainstream EDA design tools, enabling bidirectional data integration of schematics and PCB data with the PLM system, ensuring automatic data synchronization, unified version control, and managed design changes. The system supports multi-attribute management, intelligent matching, and preferred component selection for electronic materials, combined with enterprise-specific preferred component library strategies, to enhance design quality and supply chain resilience from the very beginning of the design process.
- Deep integration with mainstream EDA tools，automatically extracts BOM information, component lists, and other data, eliminating manual entry errors and ensuring consistency between design and data.
- Differentiated attribute management for electronic materials,supports defining independent attribute templates based on component types (e.g., resistors, capacitors, ICs, connectors), enabling a "one-type-one-template" approach.
- Management of alternative and successor components, structured maintenance of substitution relationships, lifecycle status, and certification equivalency. When primary components face shortages, obsolescence, or supply risks, compliant alternatives ensure continuity in design and production.
- Preferred component review during selection,enables design engineers to initiate preferred component reviews during the selection phase. Based on component preference levels and applicable scenarios, the system prioritizes recommendations to guide component selection toward higher reuse, reliability, and cost efficiency.
- End-to-end BOM lifecycle collaboration,electronic design BOM changes are automatically synchronized to process planning, production, procurement, quality, and other departments, enabling full closed-loop traceability and preventing incorrect assembly, material obsolescence, or production line stoppages.
Software Development Management
SIPM/PLM is deeply aligned with the intelligent development trends in the high-tech electronics industry, effectively managing the entire software development lifecycle from requirements, design, and development to testing and release. Through standardized processes and a modular architecture, it ensures that software development complies with industry functional safety and quality standards such as ASPICE and ISO 26262, promoting the accumulation of software assets, module reuse, and agile iteration.
- Full-element lifecycle management,comprehensive lifecycle management of all elements—including algorithm documents, requirement specifications, test cases, and closed-loop bug records—supporting version traceability and compliance auditing.
- End-to-end data flow consistency, ensures data consistency across all stages, from requirements management and functional design to coding development and software testing.
- Seamless integration of end-to-end data flow, achieves tight integration between upstream and downstream processes, guaranteeing data consistency throughout requirements management, functional design, coding development, and software testing.
- Integrated hardware-software collaboration, enables comprehensive collaboration between software development, electronic design, and mechanical design, ensuring integrated hardware-software delivery and accelerating the engineering implementation of innovative products.
- Agile development support,supports agile project management methodologies, enabling rapid iteration and responsiveness to evolving customer requirements.
Material Certification Management
The SIPM/PLM system enables comprehensive and unified management of the material certification process, achieving closed-loop control throughout the entire lifecycle—from material selection and certification application to testing verification and approval documentation.
- Supports standardized material certification management for finished goods (such as modules, chips, sensors, power modules, etc.), ensuring that all purchased materials used in products undergo a compliant qualification process.
- By integrating with the SCM system, enables suppliers to participate online in the certification process, facilitating confirmation of technical specifications, sample submission, test report uploads, and online approval with electronic signatures for acceptance documents, thereby improving cross-enterprise collaboration efficiency.
- Deeply associates certification data with BOM, design changes, and alternative material management to prevent the misuse of uncertified materials and reduce quality and compliance risks.
- By digitizing workflows and enabling electronic approval, the certification cycle for each individual component is significantly shortened, greatly accelerating new material introduction (NPI) speed and meeting the demands of frequent and fast-paced product iterations.
- Certification results are automatically archived into the enterprise material knowledge base, supporting reuse of historical certification data and intelligent recommendations, reducing redundant testing, and optimizing collaboration efficiency between R&D and procurement.
Process Management
SIPM/PLM's process management solution enables integrated management of product design and process planning, allowing seamless viewing of design data and timely transmission of design changes. It collaborates with SIPM/QIS to automatically receive quality feedback, ensuring the effective implementation of a comprehensive quality management system. Furthermore, the solution can extend from process management to include management of equipment, fixtures, molds, and NC programs, featuring process model reconstruction capabilities that fully meet the process data requirements of various ERP and MES systems.
- Enables integrated management of product design and process planning, allowing seamless access to design content and timely transmission of design changes. Provides ERP with complete foundational data, and when integrated with SIPM/QIS, supports automatic reception of in-process quality feedback.
- Offers a new generation of intelligent, structured, and scalable process solutions based on a unified BOM, supporting end-to-end data continuity from design to manufacturing and ensuring the accuracy and reliability of process documentation.
- Supports the creation of a standardized operation library within PLM, covering multiple domains such as machining, welding, and assembly. Enables structured description of process symbols to ensure consistency and standardization of process documents, and facilitates easy referencing of resources such as equipment, fixtures, workholding tools, and consumables.
- Enables rapid process design by reusing standardized operations from the library, with templates allowing direct output of process card documents—significantly improving work efficiency, reducing redundancy, and shortening process preparation cycles.
- Allows enterprises to directly apply standard process templates to the manufacturing BOM for process planning and automatically generate process cards, achieving standardized process design management and enhancing overall production efficiency and product quality.
- Extends from equipment and fixtures to comprehensive management of molds and NC programs, featuring process model reconstruction capabilities that fully meet the process data requirements of various ERP and MES systems.
- Provides the foundation for unified, project-based management of engineering tasks, ensuring the effective implementation of a complete quality management system.
Project Management
SIPM/PLM deeply integrates the advanced concepts of the IPD (Integrated Product Development) framework to build a structured R&D management system covering all development stages. With hierarchical project planning and centralized control, R&D project management becomes simple and controllable. The system dynamically allocates permissions for core assets such as design data and technical documents based on project tasks, flexibly and effectively managing data security and sharing. Additionally, it supports real-time, multi-dimensional monitoring of ongoing projects, enabling managers to precisely track project progress, cost, and quality, ensuring high-quality and efficient delivery of R&D projects in environments characterized by high complexity, fast pace, and intense competition.
- Hierarchical project planning and centralized control make the management of large, complex projects simple and controllable.
- Supports forward and backward scheduling of project plans. When unexpected events occur—such as delays in key components or changes in customer requirements—the system dynamically optimizes subsequent paths to minimize impact on the overall project and ensure milestone achievement rates.
- Temporarily and precisely allocates access permissions to project documents based on project tasks and collaboration roles, meeting industry security and compliance requirements while enabling efficient cross-enterprise and cross-departmental data sharing, realizing IPD’s principles of "strong matrix, high collaboration, and risk control."
- Enables tight association management between project tasks and deliverables, ensuring that outputs at each R&D stage are complete, traceable, and compliant with industry standards.
- Provides multiple visual project monitoring dashboards for real-time visibility into project progress, enabling rapid decision-making and timely intervention.
- Supports multi-dimensional performance statistics based on man-hours, task completion rates, and other metrics, providing quantitative data for task assignment and employee performance evaluations, motivating teams to focus on value delivery.
- Real-time aggregation and early warning of detailed project cost items ensure that high-investment R&D projects remain within budget limits.
Personnel Knowledge Management
SIPM/PLM features an integrated performance management mechanism aligned with projects and tasks, along with visualized workload and performance statistics. This enables managers to easily and promptly query the actual workload and performance of personnel across different departments by organizational structure. Meanwhile, recognizing the characteristics of the high-tech electronics industry—such as multi-role involvement and strong collaboration—SIPM/PLM provides fine-grained knowledge access control. It supports dynamically assigning temporary permissions based on job requirements, ensuring an optimal balance between strict security and operational flexibility.
- Dual-driven by standardized knowledge base management and project-hour-based performance management, it reduces redundant design work and inefficient communication.
- Features a performance management mechanism deeply integrated with projects and tasks, along with visualized workload and performance statistics. Managers can promptly and easily query the actual workload and performance of personnel across departments by organizational structure, enabling precise human resource allocation and dynamic workload balancing.
- Leverages quantified performance data on man-hours and deliverable quality to support customized training programs and career development pathways, fostering a stable and high-performing core technical team.
- Helps enterprises establish mechanisms for knowledge asset accumulation and reuse, transforming design experience and solutions scattered across individual computers into enterprise-level, searchable, interlinked, and iterative structured knowledge, accelerating new employee onboarding and intergenerational technology transfer.
- Provides fine-grained control over work and knowledge-sharing permissions, with the ability to dynamically assign temporary access based on operational needs, ensuring both strict security and business flexibility.
Sample Testing Management
Sample Testing Management (SIPM/LIMS) is built on SIPM Software's proprietary no-code platform, sharing the same modeling tools, underlying architecture, and database as SIPM/PLM. This enables deep, seamless integration, forming a unified testing data and business management platform that meets the requirements of laboratory management systems.
- Enables full digitalization of the entire testing process—from commissioning requests, sample registration, intelligent task assignment, raw data entry, to automatic report generation—ensuring compliance with regulatory requirements and guaranteeing test traceability and compliance.
- Provides structured and dynamic management of key laboratory elements, including personnel qualifications, equipment calibration, sample tracking, testing methods, and environmental conditions.
- Supports online application processing, intelligent task assignment, visualized testing workflows, automated data collection, and refined result analysis, significantly improving testing efficiency and data accuracy.
- Achieves real-time integration of test data with PLM master data such as product design, BOM, change management, and quality, enabling rapid feedback of quality issues to R&D and manufacturing for closed-loop continuous improvement.
Prototype Manufacturing Management
The core of Prototype Manufacturing Management (SIPM/PMS) is to enable comprehensive dynamic management of the entire prototype development process for customers—from requirement analysis, trial preparation, and trial production to prototype delivery—covering design, BOM, process planning, materials, and production trial preparation and planning, thereby achieving efficient cross-departmental collaboration. By leveraging real-time monitoring and data-driven decision support, the system ensures that the prototype development process is controllable, traceable, and significantly improves overall work efficiency and productivity.
- Centrally manages trial production tasks, material preparation, process routes, and delivery milestones to ensure on-time, high-quality prototype delivery.
- Proactive resource alerts automatically identify gaps in material inventory and manufacturing resources, preventing production stoppages due to missing parts and reducing costs from duplicate or excessive procurement.
- Full traceability of trial process data, material usage, and quality issues enables rapid root cause analysis and continuous improvement.
- Key data from new product trials is collected, analyzed, and monitored online in real time, unlocking data value and supporting process optimization.
- Real-time visualization of core metrics such as project progress, cost distribution, shipment volume, and issue statistics, with drill-down capabilities and cross-departmental collaboration support, enhances decision-making efficiency.
AI Intelligent Applications
By deeply integrating AI with PLM, static data assets are transformed into dynamic intelligent capabilities, accelerating R&D innovation, process optimization, and knowledge reuse.
- Intelligent knowledge engine, based on enterprise R&D outcomes, process documentation, and experiential data, it builds a categorized vector system to enable automatic knowledge organization, semantic search, and precise recommendation.
- Content-level intelligent search, integrated with an AI engine, it supports full-text semantic search within the PLM system, enabling content-level association, retrieval, and referencing of design documents, BOMs, change records, and more.
- Intelligent process generation,utilizes AI to identify part machining features, automatically matches process rules, and generates optimal machining routes, improving both efficiency and consistency in process planning.
- Extensible AI architecture,supports integration with mainstream AI frameworks, enabling enterprises to train proprietary large models and deeply integrate them with PLM for customized intelligent applications.
- Data-Driven decision making, AI automatically analyzes multi-dimensional data from projects, costs, and quality, assisting in budget optimization,early warning, and resource allocation, advancing management from "experience-driven" to "intelligence-driven decision-making".
Industry Advantages
1 › Global Leading MDA System Modeling Tool for Flexible and Personalized System Modeling
Based on a Model-Driven Architecture (MDA) low-code/no-code system construction platform, it enables direct mapping of business logic to system implementation. This capability allows continuous iteration aligned with evolving management levels, ensuring high stability while enabling flexible and personalized system modeling.
2 › Integrated Cross-Disciplinary Collaborative Design Management for Mechanical, Electronic, Software, and Packaging
The PLM platform centrally manages product data across disciplines such as mechanics, electronics, software, and packaging, eliminating data fragmentation between multiple disciplines and specialties. It ensures consistency, completeness, and full lifecycle traceability of design data from system architecture to component details, effectively supporting the integrated development of transportation and logistics equipment.
3 › Platform-Based Product Configuration Management Facilitates Transition from ETO to ATO
Supporting modular selection and custom configuration rules significantly lowers the configuration threshold and improves the efficiency of business personnel in maintaining configurations independently. It quickly responds to the needs of the high-tech electronics industry, including multi-category parallelism, rapid iteration, regional differentiation, and hardware-software synergy, substantially shortening the order conversion cycle and promoting efficient transformation from Engineering-to-Order (ETO) to Assemble-to-Order (ATO).
4 › Unified Management of Testing and Inspection Data
Comprehensive coverage of the six major elements of laboratory operations—"people, machines, materials, methods, environment, measurement"—to establish standardized testing procedures and a unified data platform. Achieves automatic task assignment, real-time data collection, structured result entry, one-click report generation, and closed-loop feedback on issues. Ensures genuine, complete, compliant, and auditable test data, supporting product quality and certification requirements.
5 › Full Process Management for Prototype Trial Production
Covers the entire lifecycle of prototypes from requirement proposal, trial production planning, BOM and process preparation, material readiness, production execution, to delivery acceptance. It connects R&D, process, procurement, and production departments, achieving visibility in trial production plans, transparency in resource status, and timely issue response, significantly enhancing prototype delivery efficiency and first-pass success rates.
6 › High System Stability Supporting Large Concurrency, Big Data Volumes, and Extremely Complex Processes
Built using mature Java technology stacks, the server-side supports cross-platform high availability and elastic scalability. It ensures smooth operation of core businesses under long-term high loads, handling concurrent operations by multiple teams and peak business scenarios. Drag-and-drop configuration enables the establishment of collaborative multi-node processes and parallel branch workflows, quickly adapting to business iteration needs. Function customization is achieved through MDA modeling without modifying source code, balancing agility with long-term system stability.
7 › Support for Group-Level Multi-Organization Deployment and Global Multi-Language, Multi-Time-Zone Applications
Supports unified deployment for multi-factory and multi-research center groups. Language packs can be extended via standard templates, easily adapting to global localization needs. The client automatically recognizes and dynamically presents the local time zone (including intelligent switching between daylight saving time and standard time), ensuring consistent data, coordinated processes, and uniform operational experiences across international teams, thereby supporting efficient global operations.
