Chapter 7: PLM-IWG White Paper

Title: A new point of view on Product Lifecycle Management

Author(s): S. Terzi, P.D. Ball, A. Bouras, D. Dutta, M. Garetti, B. Gurumoorthy, S. Han, D. Kiritsis

Address: University of Bergamo, Italy | Cranfield University, UK | University Of Lion II, France | University Of Michigan, USA | Politecnico Di Milano, Italy | Indian Institute Of Science In Bangalore, India | Korea Advanced Institute Of Science And Technology, Korea | Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale De Lausanne, Switzerland

Reference: International Conference on Product Lifecycle Management 2008 pp. 497 - 528

Abstract/Summary: With comments and contributions by: R. Bandinelli (University of Florence, Italy), M. Langlotz (University of Kaiserslautern, Germany), G. Liotta (Institute of Industrial Technologies and Automation, National Research Council of Italy), M. Z. Ouertani (University of Cambridge, UK), V. Srinivasan (IBM and Columbia University, New York, U.S.A.), K.D. Thoben (Bremer Institut für Produktion und Logistik, Universität Bremen, Germany). This paper is one of the first tasks that the members of the International Working Group on Product Lifecycle Management (PLM-IWG) assigned themselves in November 2007 for establishing a comprehensive point of view on PLM. In particular, the present paper aims to capture the state of the art of PLM from the PLM worldwide community. The generic models presented here can be translated and put into practice in each company considering the structure of the company and the characteristic of its products. The paper is still under development in view of reaching consensus on the meaning and the scope of the PLM area, therefore every contribution is welcome.

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