Proceedings of the International Conference on
Product Lifecycle Management    PLM'07
Assessing the industrial relevance

PLM-SP3, 2007
 
(from Chapter 2: Business issues)

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Title: Product lifecycle management opportunities in small medium enterprises
  Author(s): Roberto Cavarero, Paolo Chiabert
  Address: PLM Systems – Altea Network, Via Druento 290 – 10078 Venaria Reale (TO) - Italy
DISPEA - Politecnico di Torino, Dipartimento di Sistemi di Produzione ed Economia dell
Azienda – Politecnico di Torino Corso Duca degli Abruzzi, 24 - 10129 Torino Italy
Roberto.cavarero @ plm-systems.com, paolo.chiabert @ polito.it
  Reference: PLM-SP3 - 2007 Proceedings  pp. 107 - 116
  Abstract/
Summary
It is widely accepted that PLM represents a competitive edge for manufacturing enterprises. Time-to-market reduction and increased reactivity to market's demand are PLM most known fall-outs. A local survey on PLM penetration in SME demonstrates a substantial lack of interest of SME management regarding PLM opportunities. Authors deal with the problem analysing reasons and solutions, thus highlighting the need of a simple tool to determine and clarify PLM advantages in the enterprise context. The first step towards the development of such a tool is the enterprise model proposed in the paper.
 
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