1. A method for product data management, the method performed by a data processing system and comprising: receiving inputs including one or more of robot information, operation information, position information, and constraint information; generating a list of candidate positions of a robot based on the robot information and the position information; for each candidate position, determining a time value of the candidate position and when the time value of the candidate position does not meet a threshold cycle time value, removing the candidate position from the list of candidate positions; for each candidate position, determining an energy consumption value of the candidate position; for each candidate position, determining one or more of a rating and a ranking for the candidate position based on the time value and the energy consumption value; determining an optimal position of the robot based on the ranking of each candidate position; and positioning the robot in the optimal position.