Product Lifecycle Management

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. In today's highly competitive global markets, companies must meet the increasing demands of customers to rapidly and continually improve their products and services. PLM meets these needs, extending and bringing together previously separate fields such as Computer Aided Design, Product Data Management, Sustainable Development, Enterprise Resource Planning, Life Cycle Analysis and Recycling."Product Lifecycle Management: 21st century Paradigm for Product Realisation" explains the importance of PLM, from both the business and technical viewpoints, supported by examples showing how world-class engineering and manufacturing companies are implementing PLM successfully. The book: introduces PLM, a unique holistic view of product development, support, use and disposal for industry worldwide, based on experience with internationally renowned companies; shows you how to take full advantage of PLM, how to prepare people to work in the PLM environment, how to choose the best solution for your situation; provides deep understanding, nurturing the skills you will need to successfully implement PLM and achieve world-class product development and support performance; and, gives access to a companion www site containing further material.

ISBN 1852338105   Pages 460 ISBN13 9781852338107 (What's this?)   Volumes 1 Publisher Springer London Ltd   Weight (grammes) 818 Imprint Springer London Ltd   Published in England Format Hardback   Series title Decision Engineering Publication date 28 Sep 2004   Height (mm) 156 Library of Congress 2005273427   Width (mm) 234 DEWEY 658.5   Spine width (mm) 25 DEWEY edition DC22   Academic level Professional / Scholarly

Ch. 1		Executive overview of PLM		1
Ch. 2		Introduction to PLM		15
Ch. 3		Progress depends on retentiveness		37
Ch. 4		The opportunities and benefits of PLM		45
Ch. 5		The rationale for PLM		55
Ch. 6		Different views of PLM		71
Ch. 7		You start here - in the details of the PLM swamp		79
Ch. 8		PLM has the answers		97
Ch. 9		Some components of PLM		105
Ch. 10		Uncoordinated incoherent improvement initiatives		121
Ch. 11		Coherent vision, strategy, plan, resources, metrics		129
Ch. 12		A company's PLM vision		135
Ch. 13		The process of PLM visioning		143
Ch. 14		Structure for the PLM vision		157
Ch. 15		A strategy to achieve the vision		163
Ch. 16		Industrial strategies		173
Ch. 17		Principles for the PLM strategy		179
Ch. 18		Preparing for the PLM strategy		191
Ch. 19		Developing a PLM strategy		195
Ch. 20		Strategy identification and selection		205
Ch. 21		Change management for PLM		217
Ch. 22		PDM, an essential enabler for PLM		233
Ch. 23		Reasons for implementing a PDM system		249
Ch. 24		Foreword is forearmed		285
Ch. 25		Financial justification of PDM		305
Ch. 26		FAQs about implementation and use		317
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From the reviews: "Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) is a new paradigm for product manufacturing ! . The book introduces PLM and explains its importance from both the business and technical viewpoints, supported by examples; it explains how world-class engineering and manufacturing companies are implementing PLM successfully. The book provides brilliantly a holistic view of product development, support, use and disposal for industry worldwide, based on experience with internationally renowned companies. This book is a must for all product manufacturing companies of the 21st Century." (Krishna B. Misra, International Journal of Performability Engineering, Vol. 4 (2), 2008)

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