Product Lifecycle Management: 21st century Paradigm for Product Realisation (Hardcover)

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"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 21^st Century." (Krishna .B. Misra, International Journal of Performability Engineering, Vol. 4 (2), 2008)

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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 todayÆs 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 Details

• Hardcover: 400 pages
• Publisher: Springer; 1 edition (August 27, 2004)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1852338105
• ISBN-13: 978-1852338107
• Product Dimensions: 9.3 x 6.3 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.8 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (11 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #299,488 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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14 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Lots of good text, bad presentation, January 3, 2005

By	Marcus L - See all my reviews

I'm very interested in PLM related issues and PLM as a concept has become essential for the company I work for. When I opened this book and tried to read it I became a little exhausted - more than 400 pages with no pictures or figures or charts - only text and pages of various kind of detailed lists. I wonder who are the ones in the core interest group of this book? Certainly not business readers, I personally don't have enough time to or effort to go this through even though I'm very sure that all PLM issues are in place and explained in great detail. From my perspective this is not something to read in a plane.

13 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A goldmine, January 23, 2005

By	D. Smith (Michigan) - See all my reviews

This is a goldmine of high-value material with rich veins of knowledge and experience. It will be highly valued by readers in the Manufacturing sector handling the complexity of developing, supporting and managing products in the global economy.

Nuggets like the PLM paradigm lie on the surface. More highgrade material lies under the surface with even a 30 slide appendix to save you days of work.

Space shuttles, tires, SUV's, drug products, elevators, with collaboratively-developed, globally-used products the need for Product Lifecycle Management is omnipresent. Unless PLM is implemented expect even more problem products. But implementation will take more than management presentations of cool and colorful Powerpoint slides. PLM is a new way of thinking, flying in the face of century-old thinking, and isn't so easy to take aboard.

This is a profound book building the foundations of a new paradigm for product development, realization, use, management. Reading it is an enrichening experience.

13 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars At last a great book about PLM, September 26, 2004

By	Matt Croft "Matt" - See all my reviews

I like this book, it explains PLM well. It needed to be written. A lot had been said about PLM, but nothing authoritative put on paper. But its a long book with over 400 pages and for me it would have been even better with some clear break points. So let me propose some break points for you when you're reading it.

I propose you read it in three parts. The first part would be Chapters 1 to 6, Chapter 9 and Chapters 31 and 32 which would be about about 120 pages long. These chapters make a great introduction, description and justification of PLM. As the title has it, PLM is a new paradigm. These chapters cover the PLM paradigm, which makes sense, but because it is different from the previous view, has a lot of description and examples. This is useful to anyone involved with PLM. Its excellent, innovative and visionary.

Part 2 is the Chapters from 10 to 21. That's about 100 pages of description of how to prepare for PLM. They cover a lot of ground. The end result from these chapters is the PLM plan. They start from not having a PLM solution or strategy, just the need to do PLM. They'd be useful to anyone developing a PLM strategy/plan. Very good to read, and would help you run a company's PLM initiative.

Part 3 for me is the 150 pages or so starting with Chapter 22 and going up to Chapter 30 with a description of how to implement a component of PLM. The implementation of PDM is described. This is life in the trenches compared to Part 2 strategizing. Specific to PDM, but a lot such as financial justification would be similar for other components. Good for the PDM trenches.

Overall, a book I recommend.