Product Lifecycle Management (Volume 2)

John Stark has worked in the Product Lifecycle Management sphere for more than 30 years, beginning in the 1980s and 1990s working in Computer-Aided Design, Product Data Management, Business Process Improvement and Engineering Vision. He has worked as a consultant in Product Lifecycle Management since 2001, while in the last 15 years, he has focused on helping companies implement PLM.

• An Introduction to Product Lifecycle Management.- The Need for Product Lifecycle Management.- A Complex and Changing Product Environment.- Pain from Products, Pain with Products.- The Emergence of Product Lifecycle Management.- The Opportunities and Benefits of PLM.- The Product is at the Heart of PLM.- The Importance of Product Data in PLM.- The Importance of Business Processes in PLM.- Applications in the PLM Environment.- The PDM System in the PLM Environment.- People and PLM.- Methods and Techniques in the PLM Environment.- Facilities and Equipment of the PLM Environment.- Metrics in the PLM Environment.- Organisation and the PLM Environment.- Reasons for Implementing a PDM System in the PLM Environment.- Forewarned for PDM is Forearmed for PDM.- PDM Implementation and Use FAQs.- Impediments to Successful Implementation of PDM.- Of PLM Vision, Strategy and Planning.- Strategies and Principles.- Getting Executive Support for PLM.- PLM Vision Development and PLM Strategy Development.- PLM Vision: An Example.- The Current Situation of the PLM Environment.- Examples of the Current Situation.- Describing the Future Situation of the PLM Environment.- The PLM Implementation Strategy and Plan.- PLM Action and Activities.