Defining Product Lifecycle Management: A Journey across Features, Definitions, and Concepts
Year: 2013
Type: article
Abstract: Product lifecycle management (PLM) has become more important in companies providing technologies and methodologies to manage data, information, and knowledge along the whole product lifecycle. In recent years, several authors have argued about PLM using a managerial or a technological view. The paper analyses these studies and integrates different author's points of view using focus groups, blogs, and face-to-face meetings in a university community of practice. Three sets of features (i.e., managerial, technological, and collaborative ones) have been used to review the existing definitions shared between academic and industrial ones and to propose an extended PLM definition describing its key concepts. The paper is a useful reference for managers and academics who want to have a clear and critical understanding of PLM using a unique source to collect lines of evidence on several PLM definitions, features, and concepts.
Source: ISRN Industrial Engineering
DOI: 10.1155/2013/170812
Authors: Angelo Corallo, Maria Elena Latino, Mariangela Lazoi, Serena Lettera, Manuela Marra, Sabrina Verardi
Institution: University of Salento
Language: English
Subfield: Management of Technology and Innovation
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: hybrid
OpenAlex ID: W2019547519