Logical
Vendor-neutral capabilities, functions, data objects, and services — grouped by sub-domain. Common transverse PLM features (foundations, document management, collaboration & access, lifecycle/workflow, change, configuration, BOM) come first; then domain clusters (CAD 3D design, simulation/CAE, manufacturing/CAM, quality, systems engineering, digital thread / twin, service & IoT, integrations, visualization, analytics).
105 concepts. Generated by scripts/generate_mocs.py — do not hand-edit.
Foundations (PDM, data model, classification)
| # | Title | Type | Definition |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Product Data Management (PDM) | capability | Product Data Management (PDM) is the logical capability of capturing, organizing, controlling, and disseminating product-design data — primarily CAD files and their metadata — . |
| 2 | PLM Data Model | data-object | PLM Data Model is the logical data object that defines the canonical entities of product data — Item, Revision, BOM, Document, Change, Workflow, User, Project — and the relatio. |
| 3 | Metadata Management | capability | Metadata Management is the logical capability of defining, capturing, governing, and querying the descriptive attributes — author, creation date, classification, lifecycle stat. |
| 4 | Classification Schema | data-object | Classification Schema is the data object that defines the taxonomy and attribute templates used to organize, search, and reuse parts and documents in a PLM system. |
Document Management
| # | Title | Type | Definition |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Document Vault | capability | Document Vault is the logical capability of securely storing engineering files (CAD models, drawings, simulation results, technical publications) with check-in/check-out, revis. |
| 2 | Document Management | capability | Document Management is the broader logical capability of governing engineering and technical documents across their lifecycle — authoring, classification, review, approval, rel. |
Collaboration & Access Rights
| # | Title | Type | Definition |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Collaboration Access Rights | capability | Collaboration Access Rights is the logical capability of granting, denying, and auditing who can do what to which product data, across an extended enterprise of internal engi. |
| 2 | Federated Data Architecture | capability | Federated Data Architecture is the logical capability of reasoning over and querying product information that stays in its system of record — CAD vault, PLM, ERP, ALM, MES, sup. |
| 3 | Collaborative Product Commerce (cPDm) | capability | Collaborative Product Commerce (CPC) — also called collaborative Product Definition management (cPDm) — is the CIMdata-canonical term for web-enabled, enterprise-capable solu. |
Lifecycle & Workflow (maturity, FFF, SOP)
| # | Title | Type | Definition |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Workflow Engine | service | Workflow Engine is the logical service that drives multi-step, role-based business processes inside the PLM system: change requests through approval, release requests through g. |
| 2 | Part Lifecycle Information (PLI) | data-object | Part Lifecycle Information (PLI) is the data object that aggregates per-part status across its full lifetime — design release, supplier qualification, inventory disposition, EO. |
Change Management (ECR / ECO / ECN, CCB)
| # | Title | Type | Definition |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Engineering Change Order (ECO) | data-object | Engineering Change Order (ECO) is the data object that authorizes a specific change to released engineering data — typically following an ECR (request) and preceding the ECN (n. |
| 2 | Engineering Change Request (ECR) | data-object | Engineering Change Request (ECR) is the data object that captures the intent to change released engineering data — the problem, the proposed change, and a preliminary impact . |
| 3 | Change Control Board (CCB) | role | Change Control Board (CCB) is the cross-functional decision body that reviews engineering change requests, evaluates impact, and authorizes (or rejects) changes to released con. |
| 4 | Engineering Change Notice (ECN) | data-object | Engineering Change Notice (ECN) is the data object that announces an approved engineering change to all stakeholders — manufacturing, suppliers, service, sales — and triggers d. |
| 5 | Form, Fit, Function (FFF) Rule | data-object | Form, Fit, Function (FFF) is the change-classification heuristic that drives the most consequential decision in change management: does a change preserve interchangeability wit. |
| 6 | Manufacturing Deviation | data-object | Manufacturing Deviation is the data object that authorizes a temporary, bounded departure from released engineering or process specifications without changing the released co. |
Configuration & Variant Management
| # | Title | Type | Definition |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Effectivity | data-object | Effectivity is the indicator on a product-structure occurrence (a BOM line, a relationship, a document binding) that specifies the range over which that occurrence is valid. |
| 2 | Configurable BOM | data-object | Configurable BOM (also called the 150% BOM or super-BOM) is a single, parameterized product structure that contains every option, variant, and feature that could appear in a . |
| 3 | Variant Configurator | capability | Variant Configurator is the logical capability of expressing a configurable product family — characteristics, options, dependency rules, and exclusion constraints — and resolvi. |
Bills of Materials & Product Structure
| # | Title | Type | Definition |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Product Structure | data-object | Product Structure is the data object representing the hierarchical decomposition of a product into technical objects (parts, assemblies, subsystems, features) along with their . |
| 2 | MBOM vs EBOM | data-object | MBOM vs EBOM captures the two fundamental views of a product’s structure that any PLM system must reconcile. |
| 3 | Phantom BOM | data-object | Phantom BOM is a structural BOM node that exists for engineering or planning convenience but is never physically built or stocked as an assembly. |
| 4 | As-Built BOM (aBOM) | data-object | As-Built BOM (aBOM) is the unit-specific record of exactly which parts, lots, serials, and revisions were installed on an individual product when it left the factory. |
| 5 | Multilevel BOM | data-object | Multilevel BOM is the indented hierarchical view of a product structure that exposes every level of subassembly, component, and raw material in parent-child relationships. |
| 6 | Single-Level BOM | data-object | Single-Level BOM is the immediate-children view of a parent assembly — only the parts directly consumed at that assembly level, without exploding sub-assemblies. |
| 7 | Flattened BOM | data-object | Flattened BOM (also called the summarized or roll-up BOM) collapses every level of a multilevel structure into one consolidated list of leaf-level parts with summed quantities. |
| 8 | SBOM | data-object | SBOM (Software Bill of Materials) is a formal, machine-readable inventory of every software component — including transitive open-source dependencies, licenses, and versions — . |
Parts, Suppliers & Sourcing (Part Master, AML, AVL)
| # | Title | Type | Definition |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Part Master | data-object | Part Master is the central data object identifying every distinct part, material, or assembly in the product portfolio. |
| 2 | SKU | data-object | SKU (Stock Keeping Unit) is the commercially unique identifier for a sellable, stockable variant of a product — the level at which inventory is counted, prices are set, and ord. |
| 3 | Approved Manufacturer List (AML) | data-object | Approved Manufacturer List (AML) is the data object that records, for each internal part number, the manufacturer part numbers (MPNs) and manufacturers that engineering has app. |
| 4 | Approved Vendor List (AVL) | data-object | Approved Vendor List (AVL) — also called Approved Supplier List (ASL) — is the data object that records, for each part or commodity, the distributors and resellers from which p. |
| 5 | Reference Designator | data-object | Reference Designator (RefDes) is the per-instance identifier on a printed circuit assembly’s schematic and silkscreen — R12, C7, U3, J1 — that identifies which placem. |
| 6 | Original Equipment Manufacturer (OEM) | role | Original Equipment Manufacturer (OEM) is the role played by a company that designs, brands, and sells a finished product to end customers, typically integrating components and . |
CAD 3D Design (modeling, GD&T, MBD)
| # | Title | Type | Definition |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | CAD 3D Design | capability | CAD 3D Design is the logical capability of modeling a product’s three-dimensional geometry — parts, assemblies, and their relationships — using parametric, feature-based, direc. |
| 2 | CAD 2D Drafting | capability | CAD 2D Drafting is the logical capability of producing two-dimensional engineering drawings — orthographic projections, sections, details, and Geometric Dimensioning and Tolera. |
| 3 | CAD Assembly | capability | CAD Assembly is the logical capability of placing parts and sub-assemblies into a structured, constrained product structure that captures positioning, mating relationships, and. |
| 4 | Parametric Modeling | capability | Parametric Modeling is the CAD capability of defining geometry through named parameters, constraints, and relationships among elements, so that a change to any driving value se. |
| 5 | Feature Modeling | capability | Feature Modeling is the CAD capability of building geometry from named, semantically meaningful form features — holes, slots, ribs, fillets, bosses, pockets — positioned and pa. |
| 6 | Direct Modeling | capability | Direct Modeling is the CAD capability of editing geometry by interacting directly with faces, edges, and features — pushing, pulling, rotating, or replacing them — without requ. |
| 7 | Geometric Kernel | capability | Geometric Kernel is the foundational logical capability of computing solid and surface boundary-representation (B-rep) operations — Booleans, blends, offsets, intersections, su. |
| 8 | Geometric Dimensioning and Tolerancing (GD&T) | capability | GD&T is the logical capability of specifying allowable geometric variation — form, orientation, location, runout — using the symbolic feature-control framework defined by ASME . |
| 9 | PMI Annotations | capability | PMI Annotations are the non-geometric attributes — dimensions, GD&T, surface finish, materials, weld and assembly notes — embedded directly on a 3D CAD model so the model itsel. |
| 10 | Model-Based Definition (MBD) | capability | Model-Based Definition (MBD) is the logical capability of designating the 3D CAD model — with embedded PMI, GD&T, and metadata — as the legal authority for design specification. |
| 11 | Design for Manufacturing and Assembly (DFM/DFA) | capability | DFM/DFA is the logical capability of evaluating a design against manufacturability and assembly criteria — process suitability, draft, undercuts, fastener counts, ergonomic acc. |
| 12 | Digital Mockup (DMU) | capability | Digital Mockup (DMU) is the logical capability of assembling a complete virtual representation of a product — geometry, product structure, and metadata — for visualization, fit. |
Simulation & CAE
| # | Title | Type | Definition |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | CAD Simulation | capability | CAD Simulation is the logical capability of running structural, thermal, modal, or basic flow analyses directly inside the CAD authoring environment, on the live design model, . |
| 2 | Finite Element Analysis (FEA) | capability | Finite Element Analysis (FEA) is the logical capability of solving partial differential equations governing structural, thermal, electromagnetic, or coupled physics problems by. |
| 3 | Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) | capability | Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) is the logical capability of numerically solving the Navier–Stokes equations (and their turbulence-averaged variants) on a discretized fluid . |
| 4 | Tolerance Analysis | capability | Tolerance Analysis is the logical capability of predicting how dimensional and geometric variation accumulates across an assembly — worst-case, RSS, or Monte Carlo — so that de. |
| 5 | Virtual Commissioning | capability | Virtual Commissioning is the logical capability of validating an automation system’s PLC code, HMI logic, and electrical/mechanical design against a high-fidelity virtual model. |
Manufacturing & CAM
| # | Title | Type | Definition |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | CAM Programming | capability | CAM Programming is the logical capability of authoring numerical-control toolpaths and machine programs from a 3D model — selecting tools, defining operations, simulating cutte. |
| 2 | Process Simulation and MES | capability | Process Simulation and MES is the logical capability of designing, simulating, and operating discrete-manufacturing production — from line balancing and ergonomic studies in th. |
| 3 | Manufacturing Routing | data-object | Manufacturing Routing is the data object that defines the ordered sequence of operations, work centers, machines, tools, and standard times required to manufacture a part or as. |
| 4 | Manufacturing Work Instructions | data-object | Manufacturing Work Instructions (MWI) are the controlled documents — increasingly delivered as interactive 3D, video, and AR overlays — that tell an operator exactly how to per. |
| 5 | Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) | artifact-type | Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) is the controlled-document artifact-type that describes the recurring way a process step is to be performed in a regulated environment — manu. |
| 6 | MOM | capability | MOM (Manufacturing Operations Management) is the ISA-95 Level 3 superset of MES — the operational layer between ERP scheduling and shop-floor control that orchestrates producti. |
| 7 | HMI | capability | HMI (Human-Machine Interface) is the operator-facing visualization and control layer on top of industrial controllers — typically a panel-mounted touchscreen or a SCADA client . |
| 8 | Digital Manufacturing | capability | Digital Manufacturing is the logical capability of defining, simulating, optimizing, and validating manufacturing processes in a virtual environment — line layouts, robotic cel. |
| 9 | Concurrent Engineering | capability | Concurrent Engineering (CE) is the logical capability of designing the product, the manufacturing process, the supply chain, and the service plan in parallel rather than sequ. |
| 10 | Coordinate Measuring Machine (CMM) | capability | Coordinate Measuring Machine (CMM) is the logical capability of dimensionally inspecting a manufactured part by probing discrete points on its surface and comparing them to the. |
| 11 | Computer Numerical Control (CNC) | capability | Computer Numerical Control (CNC) is the logical capability of driving a machine tool — mill, lathe, router, EDM, laser cutter, additive printer — through programmed instruction. |
| 12 | Programmable Logic Controller (PLC) | capability | Programmable Logic Controller (PLC) is the logical capability of running deterministic, real-time control logic on an industrial-grade controller that drives sensors, actuators. |
Quality & Compliance
| # | Title | Type | Definition |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | APQP | capability | APQP (Advanced Product Quality Planning) is the structured, phase-gated quality-planning framework codified by the Automotive Industry Action Group (AIAG) and now widely adopte. |
| 2 | UDI | data-object | UDI (Unique Device Identification) is the regulator-mandated identifier system that puts a globally unique, machine-readable code on every medical device and its packaging so i. |
| 3 | Quality Management System (QMS) | capability | Quality Management System (QMS) is the logical capability that records, controls, and continuously improves the policies, procedures, records, and decisions that govern product. |
| 4 | Corrective and Preventive Action (CAPA) | data-object | Corrective and Preventive Action (CAPA) is the structured data object and workflow that records identified quality problems, root-cause analyses, corrective actions (to fix wha. |
| 5 | Risk Matrix | data-object | Risk Matrix is the data object that encodes severity-of-harm × likelihood-of-occurrence into a structured grid that ranks risks and routes them to mitigation. |
| 6 | Design History File (DHF) | data-object | Design History File (DHF) is the FDA-mandated compilation of records that demonstrates a medical device’s design was developed in compliance with the approved design plan and 2. |
| 7 | Device Master Record (DMR) | data-object | Device Master Record (DMR) is the FDA-mandated compilation of all the information required to manufacture a finished medical device — the manufacturing recipe of record. |
| 8 | Device History Record (DHR) | data-object | Device History Record (DHR) is the FDA-mandated, per-unit (or per-lot) record proving that a specific medical device was manufactured in accordance with the Device Master Recor. |
| 9 | Design Controls | capability | Design Controls is the medical-device-specific logical capability of running a documented, evidence-producing design process per 21 CFR 820.30 and ISO 13485 §7.3. |
| 10 | Failure Mode and Effects Analysis (FMEA) | capability | Failure Mode and Effects Analysis (FMEA) is the logical capability of systematically identifying potential failure modes of a product (DFMEA) or a manufacturing process (PFMEA). |
| 11 | Production Part Approval Process (PPAP) | capability | Production Part Approval Process (PPAP) is the logical capability of formally proving that a supplier can produce a part that meets the OEM’s engineering, performance, and proc. |
| 12 | Statistical Process Control (SPC) | capability | Statistical Process Control (SPC) is the logical capability of monitoring a manufacturing process by sampling key characteristics, plotting them on control charts, and reacting. |
| 13 | Nonconformance Report (NCR) | data-object | Nonconformance Report (NCR) is the data object recording a discrepancy between an observed product or process condition and a specified requirement — a part out of tolerance, a. |
Systems Engineering & ALM
| # | Title | Type | Definition |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Requirements Traceability Matrix | data-object | Requirements Traceability Matrix (RTM) is the data object that records the bidirectional links between stakeholder needs, derived requirements, design elements, verification ar. |
| 2 | Model-Based Systems Engineering (SysML) | capability | Model-Based Systems Engineering (SysML) is the logical capability of describing complex systems with formal, navigable models — using the OMG Systems Modeling Language — instea. |
| 3 | ALM Traceability | capability | ALM Traceability is the logical capability of linking software application-lifecycle artifacts — requirements, work items, source-code commits, builds, test cases, and defects . |
| 4 | Electrical Systems Engineering (E/E) | capability | Electrical / Electronic Systems Engineering (E/E) is the logical capability of designing the electrical and electronic architecture of a product — wiring harnesses, control uni. |
Digital Thread & Digital Twin
| # | Title | Type | Definition |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Digital Thread | capability | Digital Thread is the logical capability of linking every artifact of a product’s lifecycle — requirement, model, simulation, test, BOM, work order, as-built record, service ev. |
| 2 | Digital Twin | capability | Digital Twin is the logical capability of maintaining a live, virtual representation of a specific physical product, production line, or facility, kept synchronized with its re. |
| 3 | IoT Platform | capability | IoT Platform is the logical capability of ingesting, contextualizing, storing, and acting on telemetry from connected products and assets at scale. |
Service, AR & IoT
| # | Title | Type | Definition |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Augmented Reality Authoring | capability | Augmented Reality (AR) Authoring is the logical capability of producing AR experiences for manufacturing, service, training, and sales by reusing CAD geometry, work instruction. |
| 2 | OPC UA | capability | OPC UA (OPC Unified Architecture, IEC 62541) is the platform-independent, service-oriented industrial interoperability standard published by the OPC Foundation. |
| 3 | Field Service Management | capability | Field Service Management (FSM) is the logical capability of dispatching, executing, and closing field-service work — installations, preventive maintenance, repairs, inspections. |
| 4 | MQTT | capability | MQTT (Message Queuing Telemetry Transport, ISO/IEC 20922) is a lightweight publish/subscribe messaging protocol designed for constrained devices and unreliable networks. |
| 5 | Industrial Connectivity | capability | Industrial Connectivity is the logical capability of bridging operational technology (OT) — PLCs, CNC controllers, drives, sensors, gateways — to information-technology (IT) co. |
| 6 | MRO | capability | MRO (Maintenance, Repair, and Overhaul / Operations) is the discipline of keeping installed equipment performing across its operational life — scheduled maintenance, unplanned . |
| 7 | Service Parts Management | capability | Service Parts Management (SPM) is the logical capability of planning, sourcing, stocking, and pricing the spare parts needed to keep an installed base running across its operat. |
ERP / MRP Integrations
| # | Title | Type | Definition |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ERP-PDM Integration | service | ERP-PDM Integration is the logical service that synchronizes engineering-managed master data (item masters, EBOMs, MBOMs, change records, supplier-related material data) with t. |
| 2 | OSLC | capability | OSLC (Open Services for Lifecycle Collaboration) is a family of OASIS specifications that define how lifecycle tools — requirements, change, test, configuration, architecture —. |
| 3 | Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) | capability | Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) is the logical capability of running the transactional backbone of the enterprise — finance, procurement, inventory, manufacturing orders, sa. |
| 4 | Material Requirements Planning (MRP) | capability | Material Requirements Planning (MRP) is the logical capability of computing what materials to buy or make, in what quantities, and by when, to satisfy a production schedule. |
Visualization & Neutral Data Exchange
| # | Title | Type | Definition |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Lightweight 3D Visualization | capability | Lightweight 3D Visualization is the vendor-neutral logical capability of consuming, viewing, marking up, measuring, sectioning, and exchanging 3D product data in a compressed, . |
| 2 | JT Visualization | capability | JT Visualization is the logical capability of consuming, viewing, marking up, and exchanging 3D product data in the JT (Jupiter Tessellation) lightweight format defined by ISO . |
| 3 | Neutral CAD Data Exchange | capability | Neutral CAD Data Exchange is the vendor-neutral logical capability of moving 3D geometry, product structure, PMI/GD&T, kinematics, and metrology data between heterogeneous CAD/. |
| 4 | STEP AP242 Data Exchange | capability | STEP AP242 Data Exchange is the logical capability of exchanging 3D product data — geometry, product structure, PMI, kinematics — between heterogeneous CAD/PLM systems using th. |
Analytics & KPIs
| # | Title | Type | Definition |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Product Analytics | capability | Product Analytics is the logical capability of computing, surfacing, and acting on metrics and trends across the PLM data — engineering productivity, change-cycle time, BOM com. |
| 2 | KPI Dashboard | capability | KPI Dashboard is the logical capability of presenting role-targeted, refresh-on-data product metrics — engineering velocity, change throughput, BOM coverage, quality and warran. |
Domain-Specific (Fashion, BIM, EDA, PCB)
| # | Title | Type | Definition |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Fashion / Retail PDM | capability | Fashion / Retail PDM is the logical capability of managing the seasonal, style-driven, soft-goods product record across the fashion, footwear, accessories, beauty, and consumer. |
| 2 | EDA / IC Design | capability | Electronic Design Automation (EDA) is the logical capability of designing, verifying, and signing off integrated circuits and printed-circuit boards through specialized tooling. |
| 3 | Printed Circuit Board (PCB) | data-object | Printed Circuit Board (PCB) is the data object describing the physical electrical interconnect substrate that mechanically supports and electrically connects components via con. |
| 4 | ECAD | capability | ECAD (Electronic CAD) is the umbrella term for the design tools that capture electronic schematics, lay out printed circuit boards, route harnesses, and design integrated circu. |
| 5 | Building Information Modeling (BIM) | capability | Building Information Modeling (BIM) is the logical capability of representing a built asset — building, plant, infrastructure, ship — as a coordinated digital model that combin. |