Standards-Based Product Lifecycle Management -- STEP into PLM

Abstract

What is PLM? Product Lifestyle Management (PLM) is an integrated information-driven approach to all aspects of a product's life, from its conceptual design through manufacture, deployment and maintenance--culminating in the product's removal from service and final disposal. PLM software suites enable accessing, updating, manipulating and reasoning about product information that is being produced in fragmented and distributed environment. Another definition of PLM is the integration of business systems to manage a product's life cycle.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Mar 23, 2004
Accession Number
ADA464971

Entities

People

  • Raj Iyer

Organizations

  • Tank-automotive and Armaments Command

Tags

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Abstracts
  • Availability
  • Classification
  • Commerce
  • Contracts
  • Cycles
  • Deployment
  • Environment
  • Information Operations
  • Instructions
  • Knowledge Management
  • Life Cycles
  • Maintenance
  • Monitoring
  • Organizational Structure
  • Reasoning
  • Standards

Fields of Study

  • Engineering

Readers

  • Enterprise Information Systems Architecture and Joint Command Capability Interoperability Support.
  • Industrial Economics
  • Systems Analysis and Design