Overview
ABSTRACT
The development of digital tools has allowed the deployment of concurrent engineering, and minimized the needs for prototypes, thereby reducing time-to-market.Competitiveness now requires companies to better integrate the needs of all business functions, from manufacturing to after-sales, in the process of design and evolution of their products. Computer applications, previously structured in silos, must move on to a global, holistic approach to reach the performance required. The objective of product life-cycle management (PLM) is to improve the overall process of product development in the company, with strong supplier involvement.
Read this article from a comprehensive knowledge base, updated and supplemented with articles reviewed by scientific committees.
Read the articleAUTHOR
-
Jean-Jacques URBAN-GALINDO : Alumnus of the École Nationale Supérieure des Arts et Métiers (ENSAM) - Former Director of the Digital Engineering Project (Ingénum) for the PSA Peugeot Citroën Group (Paris, France)
INTRODUCTION
By the early 2000s, function-by-function optimization within the company had reached its limits, and was no longer able to cope with competition, particularly from "low-cost" countries. A global vision of product development processes became necessary to eliminate the costs induced by breaks in information sharing between engineering and the company's downstream functions (methods, manufacturing, after-sales). This led to the new ambition of extending the scope of observation to the entire company.
Basically, it's a question of moving from applications developed in silos, to a global corporate vision in which the various players, notably manufacturing and after-sales, are involved very early on in the design process, in order to anticipate potential difficulties in the "field" and thus considerably reduce development costs and timescales.
The term PLM (Product Lifecycle Management) was coined to describe this more global vision.
Exclusive to subscribers. 97% yet to be discovered!
Already subscribed? Log in!
KEYWORDS
computer aided design | CAO | Lifecycle | Design and modelling | information systems | | digital engineering | PLM
CAN BE ALSO FOUND IN:
Product LifeCycle Management, introducing the strategy
Historical background
Bibliography
- (1) - RENE (D.) - Langages de programmation en commande numérique de machines-outils. - Récupéré sur HAL Archives ouvertes (1969) https://tel.archives-ouvertes.fr/file/index/docid/281601/filename/2eme_these_David.Rene_1969.pdf ...
Exclusive to subscribers. 97% yet to be discovered!
Already subscribed? Log in!
Article included in this offer
"Industry of the future"
(
104 articles
)
Updated and enriched with articles validated by our scientific committees
A set of exclusive tools to complement the resources
