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Product Lifecycle Management
of: Antti Saaksvuori, Anselmi Immonen
Springer-Verlag, 2008
ISBN: 9783540781721 , 254 Pages
3. Edition
Format: PDF, Read online
Copy protection: DRM
Preface
5
Table of Contents
9
Chapter 1 – Introduction
14
What is a product?
14
PLM: What is it?
14
Product Lifecycle Management: background
16
Corporate challenges
18
Chapter 2 – Fundamentals
20
Product data or product information
20
Product Lifecycle Management (PLM)
22
Product lifecycle management concept
24
Items
24
Product lifecycle management systems
26
System architecture
30
Information models and product structures
34
Reasons for the deployment of PLM systems
37
Summary
38
Chapter 3 – Product lifecycle management systems
40
Functionality of the systems
40
Use of product lifecycle management systems in different organization verticals
49
Product development and engineering
51
Production
52
After sales
53
Sales and marketing
53
Sub-contracting
54
Sourcing and procurement
56
Summary
57
Chapter 4 – Product structures
58
Example 1: Product structure of a ship
60
Example 2: Product structure of a cellular telephone
61
Example 3: Product structure of a customizable product
63
Example 4: Product structure of a configurable service product
64
Summary
65
Chapter 5 – Integration of the PLM system with other applications
66
Transfer file
68
Summary
78
Chapter 6 – Deployment of the PLM system
80
Different stages of deployment
80
Study of present and objective processes ( AS IS and TO BE)
82
Choosing a system
83
Realization stage of the project
88
Accomplishing change in the organization
98
Summary
102
Chapter 7 – Business benefits of a PLM system
104
Factors leading to product lifecycle management
104
Benefits of the PLM system in product lifecycle management
106
Measuring the business benefits in daily operations
110
Material costs: reducing inventory tied capital
110
Improving the productivity of labor
112
Costs of quality
114
PLM and data warehousing as a tool to support decision- making
116
Analyzing the cost of acquisition and the deployment of a PLM system
120
PLM software licenses
122
Database licenses
123
Hardware acquisitions
123
Maintenance of equipment, licenses and software
123
Summary
123
Chapter 8 – Challenges of product management in manufacturing industry
124
Challenges of product management in the engineering and manufacturing industry
124
Special challenges of product management in the high tech industry
134
Case 1: Electronics manufacturer
135
Case 2: An engineering product
142
Frame of reference for product management
146
Developing product lifecycle management in project workshop Plc.
148
Case 3: Capital goods manufacturer and customer- specifically variable product
156
Breakthroughs on subprojects
158
Controlled entry of documentation into the system
158
The business processes determine
159
Rome was not built in a day either
159
Guidelines for the future
160
Summary
160
Chapter 9 – Service industry and PLM
162
Introduction
162
What is a service?
163
PLM in service business
177
Case 4: An IT-service (managed services) provider and a customer- specifically variable product
182
Summary
189
Chapter 10 – The role of product information management in collaborative business development
190
CIM: Computer integrated manufacturing
190
CE: Concurrent engineering
193
Product lifecycle management as an enabler of cooperation between companies
196
Contents of collaboration
198
Successful cooperation
199
Tools of collaboration
200
CPC
201
cPDm
202
Summary
203
Chapter 11 – Understanding the product lifecycle
204
The basic behavior of products and lifecycles
205
Building a product business case
211
Summary
218
Chapter 12 – Product and product management strategy as a part of business strategy
220
Product lifecycle management as a business strategy tool
220
From changes in the business environment to product strategy
221
Making a product strategy
223
Product management strategy
225
Summary
233
Chapter 13 – e-Business: electronic business and PLM
234
Preconditions for electric business from the viewpoint of the individual company
237
Significance of product management, collaboration and electronic business for the manufacturing industry
240
Summary
240
Chapter 14 – Digest
242
Epilogue
246
Appendix 1 – Tools and standards of PLM
248
A. CALS
248
B. STEP
249
C. DXF
251
D. IGES
252
E. SGML
252
F. XML
253
G. UML
253
Appendix 2 – Companies and products in the PLM field
256
Appendix 3 – PLM terminology
258
Literature and articles
264
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