{"id":2370,"date":"2013-11-13T16:14:15","date_gmt":"2013-11-14T00:14:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.plm.automation.siemens.com\/t5\/NX-Design-Blog\/THE-PROMISE-OF-PMI-Transforming-Engineering-Documentation\/ba-p\/18599"},"modified":"2025-12-17T12:00:46","modified_gmt":"2025-12-17T17:00:46","slug":"the-promise-of-pmi-transforming-engineering-documentation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.stage.sw.siemens.com\/nx-design\/the-promise-of-pmi-transforming-engineering-documentation\/","title":{"rendered":"THE PROMISE OF PMI:  Transforming Engineering Documentation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><P>According to&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Product_and_manufacturing_information\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">wikipedia, PMI is defined<\/A>&nbsp;as:<\/P><br \/>\n<P><EM><STRONG>Product and manufacturing information<\/STRONG>, also abbreviated&nbsp;<STRONG>PMI<\/STRONG>, conveys non-geometric attributes in 3D&nbsp;computer-aided design&nbsp;(CAD) and&nbsp;Collaborative Product Development&nbsp;systems necessary for manufacturing product components or subsystems. PMI may include&nbsp;geometric dimensions and tolerances, 3D annotation (text) and dimensions, surface finish, and material specifications.&nbsp;CAD application literature may also refer to PMI synonymously with Geometric Dimensions and Tolerances (GD&amp;T) or Functional Tolerancing and Annotation (FT&amp;A).<\/EM><SUP class=\"reference\"><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Product_and_manufacturing_information#cite_note-2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\"><BR \/><\/A><\/SUP><\/P><\/p>\n<p><P>To anyone that has been in manufacturing, it sounds like a great way to hand off data from engineering to manufacturing.So why aren&#8217;t more companies taking advantage of PMI?<\/P><\/p>\n<p><P>See what<a href=\"http:\/\/www.lifecycleinsights.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\"> Lifecycle Insights<\/A>&nbsp;has to say about this technology in their latest e-book.<a href=\"http:\/\/m.plm.automation.siemens.com\/en_us\/Images\/promise_of_pmi_tcm1224-209190.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">The Promise of PMI.<\/A><\/P><br \/>\n<P><a href=\"http:\/\/m.plm.automation.siemens.com\/en_us\/Images\/promise_of_pmi_tcm1224-209190.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\"><IMG src=\"https:\/\/siemensplm.i.lithium.com\/t5\/image\/serverpage\/image-id\/2843i0BB13F716776520F\/image-size\/medium?v=mpbl-1&amp;px=-1\" border=\"0\" alt=\"ScreenClip.png\" title=\"ScreenClip.png\" align=\"center\" \/><\/A><\/P><\/p>\n<p><P>Jerry<\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to&nbsp;wikipedia, PMI is defined&nbsp;as:<br \/>\n Product and manufacturing information, also abbreviated&nbsp;PMI, conveys non-geometric attributes in 3D&nbsp;computer-aided design&nbsp;(CAD) a&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61891,"featured_media":2371,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spanish_translation":"","french_translation":"","german_translation":"","italian_translation":"","polish_translation":"","japanese_translation":"","chinese_translation":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[161,1],"tags":[],"industry":[],"product":[],"coauthors":[5099],"class_list":["post-2370","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ebook","category-news"],"featured_image_url":"https:\/\/blogs.stage.sw.siemens.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/09\/ScreenClip-8.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.stage.sw.siemens.com\/nx-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2370","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.stage.sw.siemens.com\/nx-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.stage.sw.siemens.com\/nx-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.stage.sw.siemens.com\/nx-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61891"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.stage.sw.siemens.com\/nx-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2370"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.stage.sw.siemens.com\/nx-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2370\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2373,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.stage.sw.siemens.com\/nx-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2370\/revisions\/2373"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.stage.sw.siemens.com\/nx-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2371"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.stage.sw.siemens.com\/nx-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2370"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.stage.sw.siemens.com\/nx-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2370"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.stage.sw.siemens.com\/nx-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2370"},{"taxonomy":"industry","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.stage.sw.siemens.com\/nx-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/industry?post=2370"},{"taxonomy":"product","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.stage.sw.siemens.com\/nx-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product?post=2370"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.stage.sw.siemens.com\/nx-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=2370"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}