Introduction
What is Product LifeCycle Management?
It is a solution that manages the complete journey of a product from Initial Ideation, Development, Service, and Disposal. In a simple term, it manages everything involved with a product from cradle to grave. It involves into several phases from Design – > Manufacturing – > Distributing ->Consumer ->End of Life
Figure 1: – Product Life Management
Benefit of PLM – Product Lifecycle Management
There are many benefits that a Product Lifecycle Management provides. some of the few Manin benefits are the following
- Manages the complete journey of product
- Manages information of a product
- Manages the process of a product
- Avoid repeating to create efficiency
- And many more
Product Lifecycle Management
Product Lifecycle Management is a key to facilitate different management activity that a product has to go through from initial step until the end that the product is ready for consumer. The Four major sector that PLM involves are following
- Project Mangagement
- Quality Management
- Health and safety
- Asset Management
PLM – Product Lifecycle Management
Product Lifecycle Management has several layer to address the different inputs that a PLM is using to conduct the purpose of the methodology. The following are the elements that a product lifecycle management has
- People : – Refers the team members working in realizing the project
- Process : – Refers the standards and flow in the phase product development
- Tools : – It plays a vital role right from the stage of conceiving of the idea to designing the product with aesthetic appeal to developing the product level drawings and lastly to the validation/analysis stage.
- Methods
- Technology
- Data : Refers File or Meta Data that could be used to construct the code of a product
Figure 2: – Product Life Management Elements
PLM Series of Modules
There are several module that PLM composed to contribute and collaborate in the development of a product.
- Project Data Management– refers technical document of a product
- Product Structure Management refers configuration of a product – BOM
- Configuration Management refers the management of variant in production
- Change Management – Refers the management of changes to a product
- Workflow Mangement
- Catalog Library
- Supply Chain Management
- CAD[Computer Aided Design] CAM[Computer Aided Management] CAE[Computer Aided Engineering]