  Product Data Management (PDM) claims of producing desktop and web based
systems to maintain the organizational data to increase the quality of products
by improving the process of development, business process flows, change
management, product structure management, project tracking and resource
planning. Moreover PDM helps in reducing the cost and effort required in
engineering. This paper discusses PDM desktop and web based system, needed
information and important guidelines for PDM system development, functional
requirements, basic components in detail and some already implemented PDM
Sys-tems. In the end paper investigates and briefly concludes major currently
faced challenges to Product Data Management (PDM) community.
