Product Lifecycle Management 21st Century Paradigm for Product Realisation

Product Lifecycle Management (PLM), a new paradigm for product manufacturing, enables a company to manage its products all the way across their lifecycles in the most effective way. It helps companies get products to market faster, provide better support for their use, and manage end-of-life better....

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Stark, John
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: London Springer London 2005, 2005
Edition:1st ed. 2005
Series:Decision Engineering
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Collection: Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • Executive overview of PLM
  • to PLM
  • Progress depends on retentiveness
  • The opportunities and benefits of PLM
  • The rationale for PLM
  • Different views of PLM
  • You start here — in the details of the PLM swamp
  • PLM has the answers
  • Some components of PLM
  • Uncoordinated incoherent improvement initiatives
  • Coherent vision, strategy, plan, resources, metrics
  • A company's PLM Vision
  • The process of PLM Visioning
  • Structure for the PLM Vision
  • A Strategy to achieve the Vision
  • Industrial strategies
  • Principles for the PLM strategy
  • Preparing for the PLM strategy
  • Developing a PLM strategy
  • Strategy identification and selection
  • Change management for PLM
  • PDM, an essential enabler for PLM
  • Reasons for implementing a PDM system
  • Forewarned is forearmed
  • Financial justification of PDM
  • FAQs about implementation and use
  • Barriers to successful implementation of PDM
  • Examples of PDM implementation
  • Maturity model for PDM
  • The PDM project
  • PLM functionality and systems
  • Future developments