As complexity of functions implemented by software increases, so does the amount of device data such as alarms, messages and error codes, as well as the number of setting options and parameterizations that a device provides for manufacturers, technicians and users.

How can this increasing complexity of device data be managed? How can this information be managed effectively throughout the product life cycle?

With its Device Data Manager, P&PM provides a cloud-based solution that manages device data over the lifecycle: From the requirements, to the implementation in the device software, to the use of the information in service.

The Device Data Manager thus provides a central library for data points and their use as e.g. error codes or parameters. It establishes a collaboration platform for requirements managers, designers, programmers and colleagues in the service department - flexible to use as software as a service. With its open interfaces, a company's existing digital solutions can be seamlessly connected.

Variant Coding of Device Software Functions

Configure device settings to customize your smart products by software variant coding.

Products & assets are more and more customized via software parameters: The amount and complexity of parameterizations significantly increases.

With the increased complexity of software functions, the ability to configure software variants becomes a critical capability: Managing software variants along Engineering, Production and Service assures a high product quality and opens opportunities to sell additional functions as “Software as a Product”.

Mass Customization of Products & Assets by Configuration of software variants.

P&PM´s Device Parameter Manager enables customers to configure software functions of different complexities, ranging from an I/O Link sensor to ODX based vehicle parameters. Via its cloud services, configured settings can be provisioned to multiple downstream events during Production and Service. 

Lifecycle Management of

Alarms | Fault Codes | Signals | Diagnostic Codes

Standardize your alarms, fault codes, signals and  other diagnostic codes and share descriptions for symptoms, causes, detections, impacts and remedies across the lifecycle - with Engineers, Programmers, Translators, Suppliers and Customers. 

Complexity and Relevancy of Diagnostic Codes significantly increases. Correct and fast Interpretation of Device Status Codes directly influences the Operation Performance of Products.

Providing detailed fault descriptions in case of incidents together with the right measure and action plan significantly influences First-Time-Fix-Rates and therefore operating costs.

Establish a central library for codes and descriptions for symptoms, causes, detections, impacts and remedies. Share the data with your existing Requirements Tools, Content Management Systems or Digital Solutions.

Manage all your data via a single, cloud based repository and exchange it with your process partners and existing applications like Requirements Management, Diagnosis Authoring, Content Management Systems or IoT Hubs.

Create full transparency of possible fault (via fault tree), implemented fault detections on device software as well as published fault descriptions via your different channels.    

DEVICE DATA MANAGER

By P&PM