Lukas, Uwe Freiherr vonUwe Freiherr vonLukasNowacki, SteffenSteffenNowacki2022-03-032022-03-032003https://publica.fraunhofer.de/handle/publica/204942This article describes concepts for and the realization of a federation of PDM systems. The federation supports not only the consolidation of product data within an enterprise but also the implementation of e-collaboration. In this context, a federation of PDM systems refers to the virtual unification of product data that belongs together logically but which is distributed physically over a number of different systems. A typical example of the distribution of product data within an enterprise is when BoM for a product is located on another system. However, there is also substantial application potential for the federation in cross-enterprise product development.enComputer supported cooperative work (CSCW)Computer aided engineeringCollaborative computingDistributed databasesProduct data management (PDM)006journal article