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<h2 id="scope">Scope</h2> <p>EIM systems enable collaboration on all important aspects of the engineering lifecycle, such as: </p> <ul><li><a href="/facts/Requirements_management/8Ns3J9fP">Requirements management</a></li> <li><a href="/facts/Functional_design/exUSrvgc">Functional design</a></li> <li>Product architecture</li> <li>Detailed systems design and simulation</li> <li>Verification and validation</li> <li>Documentation</li></ul> <p>EIM systems implement the activities on both sides of the engineering <a href="/facts/V-model/BI5sYz27">V-model</a>. Instead of being purely a data storage, it focuses also on the human interaction with the models and data,<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:1" href="#fn:1"><sup>1</sup></a> thus enabling <a href="/facts/Concurrent_engineering/2k5rFINN">concurrent engineering</a>.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:2" href="#fn:2"><sup>2</sup></a> </p><p>EIM therefore enables the optimization of products and engineering processes, where traditional methodologies have become ineffective in keeping up with rising product and process complexity.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:3" href="#fn:3"><sup>3</sup></a> </p> <h2 id="interactions-with-the-other-engineering-management-systems">Interactions with the other engineering management systems</h2> <p>EIM systems do directly and indirectly interact with other tools in the engineering information infrastructure, such as: </p> <ul><li><a href="/facts/Computer_simulation/Re6o8vzN">Computer simulation</a> tools</li> <li>Automated hardware testing tools</li> <li><a href="/facts/Product_lifecycle/G3U6gtBv">Product lifecycle</a> and <a href="/facts/Product_data_management/9ATPbmAz">product data management</a> systems<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:4" href="#fn:4"><sup>4</sup></a></li> <li><a href="/facts/Enterprise_resource_planning/IHhjWH4z">Enterprise resource planning</a> tools</li> <li><a href="/facts/Manufacturing_execution_system/owd2l79s">Manufacturing execution systems</a></li> <li><a href="/facts/Computer-aided_design/5gSXrmmN">Computer-aided design</a> (MCAD) and <a href="/facts/Electronic_design_automation/o4la3fmX">electronic design automation</a> (ECAD) tools</li></ul> <h2 id="references">References</h2> <ol> <li id="fn:1"><p>Azam, Farooque; Li, Zhang; Ahmad, Rashid (2007). "Integrating value-based requirement engineering models to webml using vip business modeling framework". Proceedings of the 16th international conference on World Wide Web. New York, New York, USA: ACM Press. pp. 933–942. doi:10.1145/1242572.1242698. ISBN 9781595936547. S2CID 1070235. <a href="9781595936547" target="_blank">9781595936547</a> <a href="#fnref:1" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:2"><p>Stark, John (1992). Engineering information management systems : beyond CAD/CAM, to concurrent engineering support. New York: Van Nostrand Reinhold. ISBN 0-442-01075-3. OCLC 24628890. <a href="0-442-01075-3" target="_blank">0-442-01075-3</a> <a href="#fnref:2" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:3"><p>Rangan, Ravi M.; Chadha, Bipin (2001-03-01). "Engineering Information Management to Support Enterprise Business Processes". Journal of Computing and Information Science in Engineering. 1 (1): 32–40. doi:10.1115/1.1353845. ISSN 1530-9827. <a href="https://asmedigitalcollection.asme.org/computingengineering/article/1/1/32/445238/Engineering-Information-Management-to-Support" target="_blank">https://asmedigitalcollection.asme.org/computingengineering/article/1/1/32/445238/Engineering-Information-Management-to-Support</a> <a href="#fnref:3" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:4"><p>"How PLM/PDM manage half of Engineers' data and how EIM complents the other 50%. – EIM". engineering-information-management.com. Retrieved 2022-03-17. <a href="https://engineering-information-management.com/how-plm-only-manages-50percent-of-engineering-data-and-eim-complements-it/" target="_blank">https://engineering-information-management.com/how-plm-only-manages-50percent-of-engineering-data-and-eim-complements-it/</a> <a href="#fnref:4" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> </ol>