1. Product Lifecycle Management
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Product Lifecycle Management
PLM

2. Agenda What is PLM? Definition Who uses PLM Function of PLM
Benefits of PLM

3. In a dilemma… Mr. White’s company enlarged a lot recently…
BUT…he felt extremely troubled…

4. … So many tough problems… Losing money means losing my life…I don’t want to commit suicide…
What should I do?
Poor information of our products
Hard to communicate within the company
Lack of efficiency about information and among departments
Hard to update data and products
Lack of competition

5. Don’t worry, Mr. White. We come to save you!
Are you kidding me?
How can you help me, naïve guys?

6. PLM
Exactly! P L M
roduct
ifecycle
anagement

7. Create an business idea/ product
Deal with initial data
Create an business idea/ product
brings together the many companies, departments and employees involved with the product's production
streamline their activities
Compete & gain market share
The observation of an item as it moves through the typical stages of development, growth, maturity and decline. Effective product life cycle management brings together the many companies, departments and employees involved with the product's production to streamline their activities, with the ultimate goal of producing a product that outperforms its competitors and is highly profitable.
Product Lifecycle Management, or PLM, is a driver of successful product development, and a strategic contributor to business value across the enterprise. PLM helps product manufacturers manage complex, cross-functional processes, coordinating the efforts of distributed teams to consistently and efficiently create the best possible products.

8. Product lifecycle phrases
Middle of life
Distribution
Use
Support
Beginning of life
End of life
Idea generation
Design
Manufacturing
Retire
Dispose
Reuse
Product lifecycle phrases

9. PLM WHO? Consumer Goods Aerospace & Defense Education Energy
Government
High Tech Electronics
WHO?
PLM

10. Benefits Reduced time to market Increase full price sales
Improved product quality and reliability
Reduced prototyping costs
More accurate and timely request for quote generation
Ability to quickly identify potential sales opportunities and revenue contributions
Savings through the complete integration of engineering workflows
Improved forecasting to reduce material costs
Maximize supply chain collaboration
Savings through the re-use of original data
A framework for product optimization
Reduced waste

11. Faster Marketing Higher Quality Safer product Less errors & waste
getting the product to market faster, putting a higher quality product on the market, improving product safety, increasing sales opportunities and reducing errors and waste
More sales
Less errors & waste

12. Video PLM http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EMRSwPxP5c0#t=61
the science of making product
Data collection
Target business objects
Access information techniques
Generate workflow

13. Oh, I think I should learn more about PLM now!
My pleasure!
Thank you!
You did save me!
Oh, I think I should learn more about PLM now!

14. In conclusion…
[Who]Every company who wants to increase efficiency by lowering costs and decreasing the time from idea inception to product placement
[Why]
Increase competitiveness
Increase complexity
What?
Why?
Who?
[What]The management of an item as it moves through the typical stages of development, growth, maturity and decline. ?
How?
Thanks!
[How]improving dada production and management, interdepartment integration, and streaming of activities.

15. References http://www.product-lifecycle-management.info/