Life Cycle Data Management: First Steps towards a new PLM standard
Résumé
Nowadays companies need to focus on efficiency problems, assuring at the same time products to be compliant with quality standards, providing a full product support and managing suppliers and customers relationships. According to these needs, product is reassuming a central role as enterprise value creator. In literature, many authors agree upon that a correct and effective management of the product lifecycle could reduce costs by gaining, meanwhile, a higher customers satisfaction and brand loyalty. This kind of approach needs of an integrated management of all product related information and calls for a wide standardization activity. Today, a data model, capable to collect all the information regarding the product along its lifecycle, is still missing. This paper aims at providing a concrete answer to this urgent industrial need, presenting the steps taken towards the creation of a new Product Lifecycle Management standard, named Life Cycle Data Management. The development of this new standard is an effort to provide an effective and reliable information model to manage all product lifecycle data and information.
Domaines
Sciences de l'ingénieur [physics]
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