Product Lifecycle Management

✍ Scribed by Dipl.-Ing. Antti Saaksvuori, Dipl.-Ing. Anselmi Immonen (auth.)

• Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
• Year: 2005
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 256
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

In today`s industrial manufacturing Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) is essential in order to cope with the challenges of more demanding global competition. New and more complex products must be introduced to markets faster than ever before. Companies form large collaborative networks, and the product process must flow flexibly across company borders.

This first book on Product Lifecycle Management in English language is designed to introduce the reader to the basic terms and fundamentals of PLM and to give a solid foundation for starting a PLM development project. It gives ideas and examples how PLM can be utilized in various industries. In addition, it also offers an insight into how PLM can assist in creating new business opportunities and in making real eBusiness possible.

✦ Table of Contents

Introduction....Pages 1-6
Fundamentals....Pages 7-28
Product lifecycle management systems....Pages 29-48
Product structures....Pages 49-56
Integration of the PLM system with other applications....Pages 57-72
Deployment of the PLM system....Pages 73-98
Business benefits of a PLM system....Pages 99-122
Challenges of product management in manufacturing industry....Pages 123-164
The role of product information management in collaborative business development....Pages 165-180
Understanding the product lifecycle....Pages 181-198
Product and product management strategy as a part of business strategy....Pages 199-214
e-Business — electronic business and PLM....Pages 215-222
Digest....Pages 223-225
Epilogue....Pages 227-228

✦ Subjects

Management; Production/Logistics; Business Information Systems