Managing products from conception to disposal

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NEW BUSINESS PHILOSOPHY Industry is increasingly integrating people, data, processes and business systems to benefit from product lifecycle management, writes Nick Martindale The concept of product lifecycle management (PLM) was first developed in the automotive industry in the mid-1980s, but... Read more

Taking care of business with a defined strategy

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ANALYSIS The rapid evolution of product lifecycle management (PLM) is making the development of new products visible to top management, along with supporting products throughout their service lives all the way to replacement or obsolesce. This is a rare and... Read more

Setting sights for Eurofighters and fashion chains

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VISION AND STRATEGY It has become an essential business tool in diverse markets, but implementing product lifecycle management can be a complex process, as Martyn Day discovers With its origins in the aerospace and automotive industries, product lifecycle management (PLM)... Read more

Recession, what recession? Growth rates defy global gloom

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MARKET RESEARCH The global product lifecycle management market is thought to be worth more than £18 billion and, according to CIMdata research director Stan Przybylinski, it is expected to have grown another 10 per cent this year Historical data illustrates... Read more

Feel the force to design world-beating products

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3D SIMULATION AND ANALYSIS Simulation software examines the physical properties of an engineering design under stress, speed and pressure, simulating the real world, writes Will Stirling Imagine a 3D computer-aided design (CAD) on screen, covered in a fine mesh of... Read more

BMW to baby bottles meant choosing the right package

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TECHNOLOGY Selecting the correct product lifecycle management software is crucial when launching a business, as Lindsay Clark reports With nearly 20 years’ experience in engineering, including work at large firms such as BMW, Jim Shaikh knows all about product lifecycle... Read more