Chapter 1: Early Stage Issues

Title: A QFD based approach for identifying an appropriate PDM system for a company

Author(s): G. Balakrishnan, C. Jebaraj

Address: AU-FRG Institute for CAD/CAM CEG, Anna University, Chennai-25, India. | AU-FRG Institute for CAD/CAM CEG, Anna University, Chennai-25, India.

Reference: International Conference on Product Lifecycle Management 2006 pp. 349 - 362

Abstract/Summary: This paper presents an approach that incorporates Quality Function Deployment (QFD) for identifying an appropriate PDM system for a specific company. The use of QFD rationalizes the process of identifying a PDM system for a successful collaborative product development strategy. In this approach the user requirements were directly correlated with the PDM functions. This helps in prioritizing PDM systems and in providing a transparent method of understanding the correlation between the requirements of electronic data management of the industry with the available PDM systems.

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