Whats the difference between Item Revision State and Item Lifecycle Phase?
PDXpert product lifecycle management software supports various data revision approaches, including traditional pre-production numeric and production alphabetic formats. Nonetheless, this topic explains why these traditional approaches should be considered obsolete. We describe how using only one revision format (alphabetic or numeric), coupled with PDXpert PLM software’s built-in item lifecycle phase attribute, provides fine-grained control over product life cycle business rules while reducing the cost and risk of managing item revisions. We believe that using a single revision format regardless of the item’s lifecycle phase is current best practice. Item records, whether for document or part, must have one or more revisions. An item revision represents the technical content at a specific point in time; a released revision represents an item’s approved technical content at a point in time. Separately, items have a lifecycle: they’re conceived, designed, prototyped, validated, produced,
