Chapter 1: Early Stage Issues

Title: Cost-effective Electronic Delivery of Product Data and Documentation

Author(s): Bruno Schilli, Wolfgang Schellhammer, Harsh Karandikar

Address: ABB Corporate Research, ABB AG Wallstadter Strasse 59, 68526 Ladenburg, Germany | ABB Corporate Research, ABB AG Wallstadter Strasse 59, 68526 Ladenburg, Germany | ABB Corporate Research, ABB AG Wallstadter Strasse 59, 68526 Ladenburg, Germany

Reference: International Conference on Product Lifecycle Management 2006 pp. 113 - 121

Abstract/Summary: Manufacturers understand the necessity and the competitive advantages of delivering, to their industrial customers, the full range of product information, data and documentation, electronically and in a digital format. Despite this recognition, however, there are few companies that are able to do this satisfactorily. In large companies with a global manufacturing footprint, distributed product responsibilities and long internal supply chains the challenges are organizational as well as technical. There is a need for an approach that is standard yet flexible and can be implemented at low cost. We introduce such an approach in this paper.

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