Product Life Cycle Management

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Product Life Cycle Management

• The Future of Production Systems

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PLM

• Product Life Cycle Management is a total
  production system that tracks a product from
  inception to disposal
• It includes, marketing, sales, design, planning,
  production, quality requirements, packaging,
  shipping, and disposing of the product when its
  useful life is over

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The Scope of PLM
Product Lifecycle
Plus the engineering business systems to make the
process work with the rest of the company
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Where did PLM come from?

• Originally the term was used to describe the
  computer technology needed by auto makers and
  their suppliers to store information about
  vehicle parts, engineering data, design data,
  quality, etc.

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The Benefit of PLM

• It is a common production system, with common
  computer technology for information storage and
  retrieval. In theory any employee, in any
  department can look at data created by another
  department or group. The information is archived
  and valid for the life of the product

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The Benefit of PLM

• It is a concept that should induce ethical
  behavior in terms of up graded products and
  hopefully will drive social responsibility in the
  areas of innovation, design, manufacturing,
  quality, and disposal

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PLM Leadership

• PLM or PLC provides a framework to rediscover the
  basic stages of product development, 1.
  Introduction. 2. Growth. 3. maturity. 4. decline
• In general the leader must influence all team
  members to attain goals, always being sensitive
  to members needs

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PLM Leadership

• In the growth stage the leader needs to know how
  to communicate and delegate responsibility to
  team members
• In the maturity stage the leader and group
  usually struggle to maintain cohesiveness and
  productivity
• In decline the leader needs to maintain team
  motivation

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PLM Leadership

• Facilitation, communication, goal setting,
  project management, building consensus,
  organization, resource allocation, motivation,
  team building are a few of the LEADERSHIP skills
  necessary to drive a successful PLM initiative
• To quote a Boeing executive, as we engineer new
  systems we always forget about the necessary
  leadership skills
• We are good at doing the task, not so good at the
  process of getting there