Product Lifecycle Management Research Papers (original) (raw)

Demands imposed by the consumer market and the need to remain competitive have motivated companies to develop products more technologically complex, by adding new functions and continuously seeking to improve manufacturing processes. At the same time that it is vital for a company to innovate and improve its products, the wise use of engineering resources and increasing costs associated with engineering changes, especially the poorly planned ones, have to be considered. The aim of this paper is to propose a decision-making support method for identifying opportunities for product improvement, based on data extracted from warranty records. The method uses field data, which are analyzed under six different perspectives of failure modes. A company in the auto parts industry has partnered in the present research to provide the context for an application example. The proposed method contributes for the effective planning of engineering capacity, by prioritizing engineering changes with customer-driven value and/or correcting product portfolio management based on market input. With more reliable data, the engineering change decision-making process becomes more effective. Furthermore, the method may help: set the right design requirements for delivering improved products into a particular market; plan for resource allocation on different projects; and highlight critical issues to be dealt with.

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- Product Lifecycle Management
- by Taede Tillema
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- Business, Project Management, Product Lifecycle Management, Inclusiveness

The current challenges in manufacturing engineering are the integration of the product/process/factory worlds (data and tools) and the synchronization of their lifecycles. Major ICT players already offer all-comprehensive Product Lifecycle Management suites supporting most of the processes. However, they do not offer all the required functionalities and they lack of interoperability. An answer will be given by the development of a Virtual Factory Framework (VFF): an integrated virtual environment that supports factory processes along all the phases of its lifecycle. This paper will focus on the Virtual Factory Manager (VFM) that acts as a server supporting the I/O communications within the framework for the software tools needing to access its data repository. The VFM will ensure data consistency and avoid data loss or corruption while different modules access/modify partial areas of the data repository at different times. Finally, an industrial case study will show the potentiality of the VFM.

- by Marco Sacco
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- Interoperability, Product Lifecycle Management, Virtual Environment, Reference model

Product Configuration Systems (PCS) is a step in the direction of mass customization in the sense that PCS allows a firm to significantly lower the unit cost of configuration. Thus PCS is a valuable technology for lowering operating costs... more

- by Jørgen L Pedersen
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- Business, Product Design, New Product Development, Product Management

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Based on very early occurring ruptures found in the first stage high pressure turbine blades of a turbo reactor in a local aviation company, this study has the aim to determine their safe life. The first stage blades are subjected to simultaneous action of gas pressure coming from the combustion chamber, centrifugal forces in the case of the rotor blades and to important temperatures transients, which progress in a very aggressive environment due to hot gases. These combined parameters cause a high state of stress involving several complex mechanisms of damage, such as: fatigue caused by mechanical stress fluctuations, thermo-mechanical fatigue caused by temperature variations and corrosion caused on the stressed elements. Life cycle determination asks for stress evaluation of blades regarding several variables which are approached deterministically in the study. Heat exchange between combustion gases and metal blades is considered. The total stress on two kinds of blades is calculated by the addition of the thermal effect and the mechanical loading. The stress cycle is then calculated for different steps of the engine function during the operation by considering the variation of the thermal and the mechanical properties of the system. Safe life determination is done by two different approaches: the safe life approach by the initiation model and the damage tolerance approach considering the defect growth mechanics and considering the pitting corrosion effect. The calculation is applied for stator and rotor blades of an aero engine high pressure turbine made of NI 738. Since these parts are high risk components from the point of view of potential failure consequences, the risk is assessed as well. The results obtained are studied to determine the solution to the problem, and to propose a safe decision to be taken about the design or maintenance procedures.

- by Gordana Bakic and +1
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- Materials Engineering, Metallurgical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Materials Science
- by martin avila
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- Engineering, Aesthetics, Design, Fashion design
- by Manuel Oliva
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- Industrial Design, CAD, Functional Design, Product Lifecycle Management

Today built heritage conservation should consider constantly changing needs of users. In particular, recent problems related to the economic crisis and to environmental pollution make issues related to consumption reduction and environmental impact particularly important.
Even if historical buildings have many sustainable features in terms of embodied energy and land consumption, they don’t perfectly meet current standards and impose many restraints from a constructive and typological/functional point of view.
In recent years a new approach to preservation has been derived from the theory of “care of monuments” by Ruskin: a preventive and constant maintenance, interpreted as less destructive and cheaper intervention and management of the continual becoming. Besides a lifecycle approach leads to reconsider management and to rethink the intervention putting in place a balance between positive and negative contributions in the long term.
The LCA mantra “from cradle to grave” is usually applied to new products taking into account all components, from the extraction/production of raw materials to the disposal of constructive elements. Since the main goal of historical buildings' conservation is to shift to infinity their dismissal time, this study aims to lay the foundations for an innovative approach for sustainability assessment of existing buildings that should consider the resources savings and doesn’t set a time limit for the building’s life.
The paper focuses on “minor” built heritage, the most exposed to abandonment and decay.

- by Emanuele Zamperini and +1
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- Architecture, Cultural Heritage, Historic Preservation, Sustainable Development

All products and services have certain life cycles. The life cycle refers to the period from the product's first launch into the market until its final withdrawal and it is split up in phases. During this period significant changes are made in the way that the product is behaving into the market ie its reflection in respect of sales to the company that introduced it into the market. Since an increase in profits is the major goal of a company that introduces a product into a market, the product's life cycle management is very important.

- by Nicos Komninos
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- Business, Computer Science, ERP, Product Lifecycle Management

Computer-aided technologies (CAx) mean the use of computer technology to aid in the design, analysis and manufacture various products. International Journal of Computer-Aided technologies (IJCAx) is an open access, peer-reviewed journal that publishes articles which contribute new results in all areas of Computer Aided technologies such as CAD, CAM, CAIM,CAR, CARD, CASE etc. The journal focuses on all technical and practical aspects of Computer Aided technologies. The goal of this journal is to bring together researchers and practitioners from academia and industry to focus on advanced CAx tools and establishing new collaborations in these areas. Authors are solicited to contribute to this journal by submitting articles that illustrate research results, projects, surveying works and industrial experiences that describe significant advances in all Computer Aided technologies

SUMMARY BAE Systems Naval Ships is undertaking a comprehensive overhaul of all aspects of its approach to the engineering, design and manufacture of complex warships. Through a partnership with the University of Strathclyde, research is underway on the implementation of Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) to meet organisational objectives. An overview of PLM is provided highlighting the challenges specific to the characteristics of Engineering to Order (ETO) products. These challenges relate to understanding PLM organisational objectives and aligning these with the relevant technology. Central to BAE Systems Naval Ships PLM approach is the Integrated Bill of Materials (iBoM) which is a critical enabler for the organisations transformational objectives. The implementation of the iBoM will be used to develop a framework for implementing PLM to ensure that the technology supports the business objectives of ETO product development, i.e. the integration of business and technology architectures.

- by Ian Whitfield and +1
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- Product Lifecycle Management, PLM, Product Lifecycle Management

En 2009, Kana est leader sur le marché français de l’édition de manga. Mais, après des années de croissance spectaculaire, le secteur entre en 2009 dans une phase de stagnation. Par ailleurs, l’entreprise observe que les ventes de ses séries chutent très rapidement dès lors qu’elles ne sortent plus de nouveaux tomes. Face à ce double constat - ralentissement de la croissance et cycle de vie très éphémère des séries - l’entreprise s’interroge sur les orientations stratégiques et actions à mettre en œuvre.

- by Franck Celhay and +1
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- Marketing, Comics Studies, Case Study Research, Manga and Anime Studies
- by Louis Rivest
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- Product Lifecycle Management, Business and Management

The process of exploitation the database to ensure the correctness of data manipulation, and a tendency to
accomplished associations. The transaction is a fit of logic procedure units; the data modification from one
state to some other state is represented with database transaction state diagram to substantiate uniformity
of data inside the database. The data manipulation ought to separate groups of logic cells, and once it all
finished, data consistency can be maintained, and once a piece of this unit fails, the whole transaction
ought to be absolutely thought-about an error, all succeeding operations from the starting point should all
fall back to the starting state. It has become a necessary to test database transaction states; a replacement
technique of state transition testing is represented and designed test cases in this paper. The database State
diagram direct testing by given the states, events, actions, and transitions that ought to be tested.

The concept (and implementation) of Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) has drawn much attention in both industry and academia. This paper investigates the scope of PLM systems, presents different types of PLM architecture and identifies an appropriate definition of PLM for a Network-Centric Manufacturing paradigm with a specific focus on small manufacturing enterprises. Research issues of PLM such as interoperability of

From the introduction of commercialized cars till date, the technology used in the cars have given edge to the companies who can provide better solutions and efficient systems that can provide fuel efficiency and better performance. In modern world, it has become difficult to survive for those companies who still practicing traditional management tactics and not commencing technological advancements in their designs and manufacturing. The change management concept consists of modification in the actions of the company as well as technologies and methods to obtain the desired goal of the company just as changing the business environment of the company from inside and outside in order to attain high profitability. These changes are associated with the adaptation change, control change and effecting change. In this report, we will examine the business model of Tesla Motors, the journey of the company in terms of introducing novel concept in traditional automotive industry and the change management concept.

- by Imran Butt
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- Entrepreneurship, Leadership, Hybrid Systems, Change Management
- by Jim Browne
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- Information Management, Decision Making, Automotive Industry, Value Chain
- by Ayman Mostafa
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- Prefabrication, Product Lifecycle Management, Design for Construction

A supply chain includes all facilities, tasks, and activities that are involved in the production and delivery of a product or service from suppliers to customers. The supply chain management (SCM) coordinates all these activities so that the customers can obtain high-quality products and reliable services at minimum costs. Supply chain management can, in turn, provide a competitive advantage for the organization. Effective supply-chain management requires a comprehensive perspective of modules. In this paper, a multi-stage structure for a supply chain network that includes suppliers, distribution centres and related issues is being developed. The main feature of the decision is based on the integration of three basic steps of tactical problems that involve procurement of raw materials from suppliers to finished production and final product distribution at the factories. In addition, two of our main goals are to minimize overall supply-chain costs and also minimize the average time delay to distribution centres. The obtained mathematical model is a single-objective linear programming model. This paper focuses on integrating and minimizing the total cost in supply chain logistics.

- by Mohammad Mahoud
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- Supply Chain Management, Operations Research, Production, Industrial Engineering
- by Leylah Rio
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- Business, Information Systems, Software Engineering, Computer Engineering

this paper is all you need to grasp the concept of product life cycle management

- by emad hamdy
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- Marketing, PLC, Product Lifecycle Management, Product Life Cycle

presentation delivered at the Federal Antimonopoly Commission – FAS RUSSIA. Moscow, 21 September 2015

- by Luca Arnaudo
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- Antitrust (Law), Product Lifecycle Management, Antitrust Law, Pharmaceutical Law
- by Simeon Jekayinfa
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- Product Lifecycle Management, Business and Management

Reliability centered maintenance (RCM) has a key role in the quality system of thermal power plants. Electricity production is definitely not only production of a product, but also becomes a customer service. Reliability is the top quality tier of this service. Incorporation in the Integrated energy system means fast transformations of organization on all levels. The reliability of modern generation components basically influences the efficiency and capacity of a power plant as a whole. This paper presents the results of RCM practice on Unit Two of The Thermal Power Plant ″Nikola Tesla -B″, 2x600 MW, Yugoslavia. RCM implementation on current problems during exploitation emphasized problems with the boiler tubing system. The methodological approach included outages analyses, marking of the most significant ones, determination of main causes of damage (determination of the material exhaustion state based on expert analyses), application of adequate remaining life assessment methodology and finally the recommendations. Based on these analyses, certain technical solutions were performed and as a result, the mean time between failures of the plant increased, as well as its reliability. According to cost efficiency, RCM methodology presented the most effective cost-benefit method for reliability upgrade.

- by Milos Djukic
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- Materials Engineering, Materials Science, Quality Management, Materials Chemistry

The paper presents the trends in the development of methods and systems for manufacturing and assembly process planning on the background of Concurrent Engineering strategies. The solutions for the functional integration of design/manufacturing and production preparation phases and the IT infrastructure including Product Data Management systems for the storage of product structure data, design and manufacturing process documentation are presented. The concept and the example of integrated process and manufacturing system planning in Product Lifecycle Management environment are presented.

- by Jan Duda
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- Engineering, Computer Science, Concurrent Engineering, Product Lifecycle Management

The emergence of advanced manufacturing technologies, coupled with consumer demands for more customised products and services, are causing shifts in the scale and distribution of manufacturing. In this paper, consideration is given to the role of one such advanced manufacturing process technology: additive manufacturing. The consequences of adopting this novel production technology on industrial sustainability are not well understood and this exploratory study draws on publically available data to provide insights into the impacts of additive manufacturing on sustainability. Benefits are found to exist across the product and material life cycles through product and process redesign, improvements to material input processing, make-to-order component and product manufacturing, and closing the loop. As an immature technology, there are substantial challenges to these benefits being realised at each stage of the life cycle. This paper summarises these advantages and challenges, and discusses the implications of additive manufacturing on sustainability in terms of the sources of innovation, business models, and the configuration of value chains.

- by Simon Ford
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- 3D printing, Additive Manufacturing, Product Lifecycle Management, Resource efficiency

Public and private procurers around the world are either mandating or encouraging the adoption of BIM within their construction sectors and projects. For example, in the UK, BIM (i.e., 'BIM Level 2') is mandatory on all government centrally procured projects. 'BIM Level 2' is a collaborative way of working, in which 3D models with the required data are created in separate discipline models according to a set of guides, standards and specifications. Mandating BIM Level 2 required the development of a range of guides, standards and specifications 1. These policy documents are intended to guide and facilitate the adoption of BIM by the project supply chain. They are considered complex as evidenced from the large amounts of requirements included within each of them and from the strenuous discussions around their implementation in professional networks and specialised blogs. Tools for assessing the compliance of project activities and deliverables these against requirements of these policy documents do not exist. This research proposes a tool, which enables a project team to determine the compliance of project activities and deliverables with BIM Level 2 policy documents at every phase of the project lifecycle. The tool was built by extracting all requirements from the policy documents. This paper will present the tool and demonstrate its application in a case study. The results show that the proposed tool can help in assessing the compliance of project activities with the policy documents and in simplifying their complexity. The two limitations of this research include the following: a) the used requirements were added to the matrix without any prior processing (e.g. semantic and ontological development); and b) an assumption was made that the policy documents used to build the matrix are trustworthy despite several of them are still at the specification stage – a stage that precedes their conversion into standard – and are untested from research perspective.

- by Mohamad Kassem and +2
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- BIM (Architecture), Facility Management, Building Information Modeling, Building Information Modeling (BIM) (Architecture)

In this era of competition, Quality is Imp factor. Quality by Design (QbD) refers to a new approach to product development. It is a modern approach for the quality of pharmaceuticals. It ensures that the quality of pharmaceutical products, safety and efficacy. It also gives a comparison between product quality by end-product testing and product quality by QbD. In this review article, steps of QbD startup plans are included. The principle of quality has been identified by the ICH guidelines.Q8-Pharmaceutical development, Q9-Pharmaceutical risk management, Q10-Pharmaceutical quality system. The aim of Pharmaceutical development is to design a quality product and manufacturing process. During the designing and development of production QbD, a company needs some elements, which are described briefly. For the Implementation of QbD, various tools are needed to be used, which have been described briefly. This paper discusses the pharmaceutical QbD and describes how it can be used to develop the pharmaceutical product.

- by MANTECH PUBLICATIONS
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- Design of Experiments, Protein, Nanomedicine, Risk Management

Practice-based textile research has an important role to play in understanding the potential for material flows for all design disciplines. We know that designers need to work with circularity principles within a sustainability framework and must fully understand the technical and biological cycles. Yet innovation in the field has shown us that for textile designers, circular design also needs to consider how these cycles can interconnect and how understanding the speed of cycles is important too. This chapter presents four projects – developed through interdisciplinary projects with scientists and industry experts – that propose new strategies for impacting our future design decisions.

- by Rebecca Earley and +1
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- Design Research, Textiles Design, Sustainable Design, Product Lifecycle Management
- by Dimitris Kiritsis
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- Product Lifecycle Management, Business and Management
- by carlos victoria
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- Engineering, Operations Management, Supply Chain, Product Lifecycle Management

This paper reviews work conducted by practiced-based textile design researchers based at the University of the Arts London (UAL) who were part of the multi-disciplinary, Swedish-based Mistra Future Fashion research consortium between June 2011 – May 2015. The objective of the consortium was to research opportunities to advance a more sustainable, yet still profitable, fashion industry. The final stage of the project involved developing practice-based approaches through physical exhibition prototypes, which formed the basis of the project’s online exhibition, The Textile Toolbox (Earley & Goldsworthy, 2014).
Here we discuss two of these design prototypes which both explored ‘designing for cyclability’ as a proactive approach to improving the retention of material value within ‘circular fashion systems’. Designing in order to enable fully joined up cycles of material use is the ultimate aim for both approaches, but this ‘speed’ of cycle creates very different challenges on which to make informed and appropriate design choices.
The two approaches are deliberately extreme opposites, with ‘short-life’ closed-loop garments explored as complementary to ‘long-life’ user engagement strategies. Both can ultimately be argued to have an ‘extending’ affect on materials in the value-chain; one by keeping products in use over multiple cycles in perpetuity, the other by extending the single use cycle of a product over time. By exploring this polarisation of ‘speeds and needs’ we aim to gain insights into creating an effective circular materials economy, which acknowledges the complex nature of our current and emerging fashion system.

- by Rebecca Earley and +1
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- Pulp and Paper + Recycled Paper, Product Lifecycle Management, Recycled Materials, Sustainable Fashion Textiles Research

Utilizing data drawn from online and print advertisements, this research compares the green advertising techniques of companies with well-documented strong and weak social and environmental track records. Notwithstanding more subtle, divergent narratives suggesting that more responsible companies direct the consumer gaze toward more political and systemic issues while their counterparts tend to emphasize relatively low-cost, scientific, and philanthropic efforts, the main findings indicate that all companies employ a very similar grand narrative focused on consumer empowerment regardless of their actual ethical track record. This suggests that most attempts, by consumers and scholars alike, to determine anything meaningful about actual corporate practices via an analysis of environmental advertising, may be largely futile. A dramaturgical framework is employed to argue that the findings are most suitably explained by reframing green advertising as a form of impression management for an audience of ethical consumers. Thus, greenwashing emerges only when such performances are contradicted by a company’s actual environmental track record. The author proposes a more relational definition of greenwashing to reorient the analytical focus on the processes behind, and connections between, the product, the company, and the industry, including their broader cultural context.

- by Ellis Jones
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- PR and Advertising, Dramaturgy, Advertising, Ethical Consumption

The common failures mechanisms of boiler components at elevated temperatures and monitoring techniques used in power plants to detect damaging or failures are generally well described in literature. Despite of different classification concerning the principal failure mechanisms of boiler thermal power plant components, it is necessary to emphasize that essential difference between these classification does not exist. Concerning the different failures mechanisms it is obvious that the most of them are completely explained and clear in physical sense of process but some of them are not still so explicit. Therefore, until today there is a great interest to investigate the failures of power plant boiler components especially having in mind the all peculiarities of particular events. This efforts are necessary while a full assessment of the failure mechanism(s) is required to prevent further failures due to the same causes. The numerous case studies presented in this paper were done as a contribution to this efforts.

- by Milos Djukic and +1
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- Materials Engineering, Metallurgical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Materials Science
- by Gail McMillan and +2
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- Intellectual Property, Product Lifecycle Management

After a long career devoted to product management, at Keter Plastics ltd, Curver, and another high volume/fast-moving consumer goods companies worldwide, I found out the time to bring an updated version of this booklet. Originally written in 1996, summarizes in an easy way, learnings and suggests the use of some tools I implemented during the years, within the teams I lead. It is important to emphasize that fast reaction to market needs and an "educated intuition" were daily tools we used by Keter Management and by other leading companies. What more relevant to elaborate now, the need for innovation at times of one of the most dramatic crises in the last 100 years!!! The purpose of this booklet is to provide to new Product Managers a toolbox of some of the well-known ideas and to serve as a friendly guide for one of the most important responsibilities, which we all share, Innovation and New Product Development (NPD). It is the result of the skills of large teams of people involved in New Product Development and the experience I gained while working with worldwide companies leading in product development. Your personal experience for improving the processes and ideas disclosed here is encouraged as the aim is to build this manual as an adaptive and growing tool.

- by pablo kaplan
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- Project Management, Industrial Design, Design Innovation, New Product Development
- by Piyush Bhatnagar
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- Marketing, Product Lifecycle Management, Measurement, M31
- by Johan Versendaal
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- Product Lifecycle Management, Business and Management