Ebook: 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. 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.

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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.
Content:
Front Matter....Pages i-xvii
Executive overview of PLM....Pages 1-14
Introduction to PLM....Pages 15-36
Progress depends on retentiveness....Pages 37-44
The opportunities and benefits of PLM....Pages 45-54
The rationale for PLM....Pages 55-70
Different views of PLM....Pages 71-78
You start here — in the details of the PLM swamp....Pages 79-96
PLM has the answers....Pages 97-103
Some components of PLM....Pages 105-120
Uncoordinated incoherent improvement initiatives....Pages 121-127
Coherent vision, strategy, plan, resources, metrics....Pages 129-133
A company's PLM Vision....Pages 135-142
The process of PLM Visioning....Pages 143-155
Structure for the PLM Vision....Pages 157-161
A Strategy to achieve the Vision....Pages 163-171
Industrial strategies....Pages 173-177
Principles for the PLM strategy....Pages 179-190
Preparing for the PLM strategy....Pages 191-194
Developing a PLM strategy....Pages 195-203
Strategy identification and selection....Pages 205-215
Change management for PLM....Pages 217-232
PDM, an essential enabler for PLM....Pages 233-248
Reasons for implementing a PDM system....Pages 249-283
Forewarned is forearmed....Pages 285-303
Financial justification of PDM....Pages 305-316
FAQs about implementation and use....Pages 317-331
Barriers to successful implementation of PDM....Pages 333-347
Examples of PDM implementation....Pages 349-365
Maturity model for PDM....Pages 367-382
The PDM project....Pages 383-406
PLM functionality and systems....Pages 407-415
Future developments....Pages 417-436
Back Matter....Pages 437-441

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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.
Content:
Front Matter....Pages i-xvii
Executive overview of PLM....Pages 1-14
Introduction to PLM....Pages 15-36
Progress depends on retentiveness....Pages 37-44
The opportunities and benefits of PLM....Pages 45-54
The rationale for PLM....Pages 55-70
Different views of PLM....Pages 71-78
You start here — in the details of the PLM swamp....Pages 79-96
PLM has the answers....Pages 97-103
Some components of PLM....Pages 105-120
Uncoordinated incoherent improvement initiatives....Pages 121-127
Coherent vision, strategy, plan, resources, metrics....Pages 129-133
A company's PLM Vision....Pages 135-142
The process of PLM Visioning....Pages 143-155
Structure for the PLM Vision....Pages 157-161
A Strategy to achieve the Vision....Pages 163-171
Industrial strategies....Pages 173-177
Principles for the PLM strategy....Pages 179-190
Preparing for the PLM strategy....Pages 191-194
Developing a PLM strategy....Pages 195-203
Strategy identification and selection....Pages 205-215
Change management for PLM....Pages 217-232
PDM, an essential enabler for PLM....Pages 233-248
Reasons for implementing a PDM system....Pages 249-283
Forewarned is forearmed....Pages 285-303
Financial justification of PDM....Pages 305-316
FAQs about implementation and use....Pages 317-331
Barriers to successful implementation of PDM....Pages 333-347
Examples of PDM implementation....Pages 349-365
Maturity model for PDM....Pages 367-382
The PDM project....Pages 383-406
PLM functionality and systems....Pages 407-415
Future developments....Pages 417-436
Back Matter....Pages 437-441
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