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Publication of Landmark PLM Book Product Lifecycle Management : Paradigm for 21st century Product Realisation John Stark Associates announced the publication of Product Lifecycle Management : Paradigm for 21st century Product Realisation (Publisher, Springer ; Author, John Stark ; ISBN, 1852338105). The book provides a coherent business-oriented framework for the introduction and use of Product Lifecycle Management (PLM), a major source of opportunity for manufacturing companies in the early years of the new century. Having implemented SCM, CRM and ERP, companies are now looking to PLM to help them develop, control, maintain and upgrade great products and related services. In future global markets, with many product development, production, logistics and support operations outsourced and commoditized, they see PLM as the strategic differentiator. Without great products and superb lifecycle support, they will lose customers to more innovative and lower-cost competitors. PLM manages each individual product across its lifecycle - from 'cradle to grave'; from the very first idea for the product all the way through until it is retired and disposed of. Managing a product across its lifecycle allows a company to take control of what happens to it. But PLM doesn't just manage one of a company's products, it enables the company's complete portfolio of products to be managed in an integrated way. The book shows how to take full advantage of PLM, how to prepare people to work in the PLM environment, how to choose the best solution for a company's specific situation. PLM will have a massive impact on industry. Although it may seem normal to manage products across the lifecycle, PLM is a breakthrough new paradigm. Much of manufacturing industry still works along the lines of Henry Ford and Frederick Taylor. But Ford and Taylor didn't live in today's environment of global competition, massive ubiquitous computing power, fast-evolving complex hi-tech products and services, want-it-now customers, omnipresent regulations, highly-educated workforces and long experience of manufacturing best practices. Specialist functional organizations have many advantages, but in today's Extended Enterprise environment - in which suppliers and customers play a key role - they can lead to a loss of control over the product. Losing control of a product during its development stage can lead to millions of dollars being lost through late market availability and product recalls. Losing control of a product during its use can lead to danger and death for users, and liability claims of millions of dollars. PLM is a 'joined-up' paradigm, differing from previous approaches of 'divide and specialise', 'divide and rule' and 'divide and master'. It joins up many previously separate and independent processes, disciplines, functions and applications - each of which, though addressing the same product, had its own vocabulary, rules, culture and language. PLM extends and brings together previously separate activities such as Computer Aided Design (CAD), Product Data Management (PDM), Configuration Management, Group Technology, Sustainable Development, Product Portfolio Management, Life Cycle Analysis and Recycling. Without a joined-up approach to these activities, developing and supporting products that are rapidly replaced is a nightmare. Preventing things falling through the gaps, PLM helps companies adapt to the needs of today's global markets, getting products to market faster, managing them all the way across their lifecycles in the most effective way, providing better support for product use, and supporting end-of-life better. PLM leads to benefits during all stages of the product lifecycle, for example: double the number of innovative ideas for breakthrough products; 25% reduction in time to market, yet 500% increase in the number of easily configured products; 30% less scrap and pollution during realisation; 40% increase in product and service revenues from tailored in-field upgrades to mature products; recycle levels approaching 90%. Product Lifecycle Management: 21st century Paradigm for Product Realisation explains the importance of PLM, from both the business and technical viewpoints, supported by examples showing how world-class engineering and manufacturing companies are implementing PLM successfully. The book :
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