This paper is a result of comprehensive consultation among the authors, with the scientists and leading actors in the area of PLM, which is a reference term for a list of phenomena currently ongoing in the industrial community. This paper discusses the pervasive concept of product lifecycle management (PLM), starting from its history to its constituent elements and its role in the current industry. The authors propose and elaborate their vision for the future steps of the PLM in terms of emerging issues and topics that industrial practitioners and researchers need to address.

Product lifecycle management – from its history to its new role

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Assembly Based Methods to Support Product Innovation in Design for Additive Manufacturing: An Exploratory Case Study

Purpose – This paper aims to improve understanding of how to manage global network operations from an engineering perspective.Design/methodology/approach – This research adopted a theory building approach based on case studies. Grounded in the existing literature, the theoretical framework was refined and enriched through nine in‐depth case studies in the industry sectors of aerospace, automotives, defence and electrics and electronics.Findings – This paper demonstrates the main value creation mechanisms of global network operations along the engineering value chain. Typical organisational features to support the value creation mechanisms are captured, and the key issues in engineering network design and operations are presented with an overall framework.Practical implications – Evidenced by a series of pilot applications, outputs of this research can help companies to improve the performance of their current engineering networks and design new engineering networks to better support their global businesse...

Managing global network operations along the engineering value chain

Development of value chain collaborative model for product lifecycle management and its LCD industry adoption

Aligning and Reconciling: Building project capabilities for digital delivery

PLM, Product Lifecycle Management is a new organisational, technology based, business model to run Company activities for accomplishing current product innovation requirements. The PLM business model may be applied both in the manufacturing sector, in the engineering & contracting and in the service sector. PLM is being considered as one of the major technological and organisational challenges of this decade to face the shortening of product lifecycles, the trend toward collaboration in product design and product manufacturing and, in general, to deal with the large amount of product related data amongst business actors in interenterprise contexts. The implementation of the PLM approach can foster a company's product innovation ability, supposing that organisational change and knowledge management are jointly conducted.

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Norma Bertacci

Papers

Organisational change and knowledge management in PLM implementation