In modern society, in order to make full use of information, enterprise not only communicates with interior, but also with the other enterprise. The old PDM (Product Data Management) system can not meet the requirement of enterprise in functions and ranges of management. To retrieve product data easily, the modern enterprises need to store product lifecycle information. At the same time, it is also necessary to expand the function of PDM, in order to share its network information, meet its requirement of collaborating design and make suppliers and partners expediently take part in the management of product data. Based on development of the PDM, this paper expatiates how to expand the old PDM for the modern enterprise.