Chapter 1: Early Stage Issues

Title: Production cost estimation within a PLM context in Vaccine Industry

Author(s): Néjib Moalla, Abdelaziz Bouras, Yacine Ouzrout, Gilles Neubert, Nicolas Tricca

Address: University of Lyon - PRISMa Laboratory / CERRAL Lyon 2 IUT Lumière, 160 boulevard de l|université, 69500, Bron, France Sanofi Pasteur France - Campus Mérieux 1541 avenue Marcel Mérieux 69280, Marcy-L|étoile, France | University of Lyon - PRISMa Laboratory / CERRAL Lyon 2 IUT Lumière, 160 boulevard de l|université, 69500, Bron, France | University of Lyon - PRISMa Laboratory / CERRAL Lyon 2 IUT Lumière, 160 boulevard de l|université, 69500, Bron, France | University of Lyon - PRISMa Laboratory / CERRAL Lyon 2 IUT Lumière, 160 boulevard de l|université, 69500, Bron, France | Sanofi Pasteur France - Campus Mérieux 1541 avenue Marcel Mérieux 69280, Marcy-L|étoile, France

Reference: International Conference on Product Lifecycle Management 2006 pp. 238 - 250

Abstract/Summary: Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) is widely presented in process industries as a number of concepts and approaches proposed to link the product throughout its lifecycle. PLM benefits can be better accomplished when communication is well performed. In this work related to vaccine industry, we use a PLM vision which divides the product lifecycle into three main phases: product definition phase, product production phase and operations support phase. We identify different product stages for each defined phase and show that to ensure the communication between product data throughout the product lifecycle, it is necessary to identify precisely the product specifications in each stage. We also present some PLM added values focusing on the optimization of the operational level through the definition of a methodology based on "Actual Production Costs" estimation.

Order a copy of this article