Defining Product Lifecycle Management: A Journey across Features, Definitions, and Concepts. (27th August 2013)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Corallo, Angelo; Latino, Maria Elena; Lazoi, Mariangela; Lettera, Serena; Marra, Manuela; Verardi, Sabrina
• Other Names: Choi T.-M. Academic Editor.; Liu B.-S. Academic Editor.
• Is Part Of: ISRN industrial engineering. Volume 2013(2013)
• Publication Date: 2013-08-27
• Subjects: Industrial engineering -- Periodicals; 620
• DOI: 10.1155/2013/170812
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 2314-6435

Abstract

Abstract : Product lifecycle management (PLM) has become more important in companies providing technologies and methodologies to manage data, information, and knowledge along the whole product lifecycle. In recent years, several authors have argued about PLM using a managerial or a technological view. The paper analyses these studies and integrates different author's points of view using focus groups, blogs, and face-to-face meetings in a university community of practice. Three sets of features (i.e., managerial, technological, and collaborative ones) have been used to review the existing definitions shared between academic and industrial ones and to propose an extended PLM definition describing its key concepts. The paper is a useful reference for managers and academics who want to have a clear and critical understanding of PLM using a unique source to collect lines of evidence on several PLM definitions, features, and concepts.