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Product Lifecycle Management (Volume 1)

21st Century Paradigm for Product Realisation

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  • Provides the reader with a thorough explanation of Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) and equips them with the skills to implement PLM within their own business environment
  • Maximizes reader insights into the many technological and management advances made in Product Lifecycle Management since the second edition was published
  • Comprehensively describes the environment in which products are developed, manufactured, and supported
  • Includes a step-by-step walkthrough of the typical processes and activities of a Product Lifecycle Management project or initiative
  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

Part of the book series: Decision Engineering (DECENGIN)

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Table of contents (8 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xv
  2. Product Lifecycle Management

    • John Stark
    Pages 1-29
  3. The PLM Environment

    • John Stark
    Pages 31-67
  4. Product Data in the PLM Environment

    • John Stark
    Pages 131-171
  5. The PLM Initiative

    • John Stark
    Pages 301-351
  6. Back Matter

    Pages 353-356

About this book

This third edition updates and adds to the successful second edition and gives the reader a thorough description of PLM, providing them with a full understanding of the theory and the practical skills to implement PLM within their own business environment. This new and expanded edition is fully updated to reflect the many technological and management advances made in PLM since the release of the second edition. Describing the environment in which products are developed, manufactured and supported, before addressing the Five Pillars of PLM: business processes, product data, PLM applications, Organisational Change Management (OCM) and Project Management, this book explains what Product Lifecycle Management is, and why it’s needed. The final part of the book addresses the PLM timeline, showing the typical steps and activities of a PLM project or initiative. “Product Lifecycle Management” will broaden the reader’s understanding of PLM, nurturing the skills needed to implement PLM successfully and to achieve world-class product performance across the lifecycle.

Authors and Affiliations

  • John Stark Associates, Geneva, Switzerland

    John Stark

About the author

John Stark started working in product development in 1979. In the 1980s he worked in computer aided design, product data management and business process improvement. 

He has worked as a consultant to companies in the product development and support area since the mid-1980s; first for Coopers & Lybrand, then as an independent consultant.

In the last 15 years, he has focused on helping companies implement PLM. During this time he has worked with more than 50 companies, so has a very good experience of PLM in industry.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Product Lifecycle Management (Volume 1)

  • Book Subtitle: 21st Century Paradigm for Product Realisation

  • Authors: John Stark

  • Series Title: Decision Engineering

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-17440-2

  • Publisher: Springer Cham

  • eBook Packages: Engineering, Engineering (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2015

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-17440-2Published: 10 April 2015

  • Series ISSN: 1619-5736

  • Series E-ISSN: 2197-6589

  • Edition Number: 3

  • Number of Pages: XV, 356

  • Number of Illustrations: 365 b/w illustrations, 26 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Industrial and Production Engineering, Operations Research/Decision Theory, Engineering Design

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