Product Lifecycle Management (eBook)

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