Closed-loop Lifecycle Management - Contents

Contents

• 1 History
• 2 Forms
• 3 Benefits
• 4 Areas of PLM
• 5 Introduction to development process
• 6 Phases of product lifecycle and corresponding technologies
  • 6.1 Phase 1: Conceive
    • 6.1.1 Imagine, specify, plan, innovate
  • 6.2 Phase 2: Design
    • 6.2.1 Describe, define, develop, test, analyze and validate
  • 6.3 Phase 3: Realize
    • 6.3.1 Manufacture, make, build, procure, produce, sell and deliver
  • 6.4 Phase 4: Service
    • 6.4.1 Use, operate, maintain, support, sustain, phase-out, retire, recycle and disposal
  • 6.5 All phases: product lifecycle
    • 6.5.1 Communicate, manage and collaborate
    • 6.5.2 User skills
  • 6.6 Concurrent engineering workflow
  • 6.7 Bottom–up design
  • 6.8 Top–down design
  • 6.9 Both-ends-against-the-middle design
  • 6.10 Front loading design and workflow
  • 6.11 Design in context
• 7 Product and process lifecycle management (PPLM)
• 8 Market size
• 9 See also
• 10 References
• 11 Further reading