Detailed review of: Product Lifecycle Management: 21st Century Paradigm for Product Realization
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Publishers
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Springer, London
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Editor
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John Stark
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Title
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Product Lifecycle Management: 21st Century Paradigm for Product Realization
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Year of Publication
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2006 (3rd Printing)
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Pages
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441
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ISBN
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1852338105
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Reviewer
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Krishna B. Misra
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Review published in IJPE, Vol, 4, No. 2, April 2008, p. 182.
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The book consists of 32 chapters arranged as follows:
Chapter 1: Executive overview of PLM
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13 Pages
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Chapter 2: Introduction to PLM
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22 Pages
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Chapter 3: Progress depends on retentiveness
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12 Pages
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Chapter 4: The opportunities and benefits of PLM
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10 Pages
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Chapter 5: The rationale for PLM
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16 Pages
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Chapter 6: Different views of PLM
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8 Pages
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Chapter 7: You start here- in the details of the PLM swamp
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20 Pages
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Chapter 8: PLM has the answers
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8 Pages
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Chapter 9: Some components of PLM
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16 Pages
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Chapter 10: Uncoordinated incoherent improvement initiatives
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8 Pages
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Chapter 11: Coherent vision, strategy, plan, resources, metrics
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6 Pages
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Chapter 12: A company's PLM Vision
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8 Pages
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Chapter 13: The process of PLM Visioning
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12 Pages
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Chapter 14: Structure for PLM Vision
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6 Pages
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Chapter 15: A strategy to achieve the vision
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10 Pages
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Chapter 16: Industrial strategies
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6 Pages
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Chapter 17: Principles for the PLM strategy
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12 Pages
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Chapter 18: Preparing for the PLM strategy
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4 Pages
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Chapter 19: Developing a PLM strategy
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10 Pages
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Chapter 20: Strategy identification and selection
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12 Pages
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Chapter 21: Change management for PLM
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16 Pages
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Chapter 22: PDM, an essential enabler for PLM
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16 pages
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Chapter 23: Reasons for implementing a PDM system
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36 pages
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Chapter 24: Forewarned is forearmed
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20 Pages
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Chapter 25: Financial justification of PDM
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12 Pages
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Chapter 26: FAQs about implementation and use
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16 Pages
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Chapter 27: Barriers to successful implantation of PDM
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16 Pages
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Chapter 28: Examples of PDM implementation
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18 Pages
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Chapter 29: Maturity model for PDM
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16 Pages
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Chapter 30: The PDM Project
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24 Pages
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Chapter 31: PLM functionality and systems
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10 Pages
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Chapter 32: Future developments
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20 Pages
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Index
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5 Pages
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Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) is a new paradigm for product manufacturing, as it enables a
a company to manage its products all the way across their lifecycles in the most effective way. In today's highly competitive global markets, it helps companies meet the increasing demands of the customers, innovates and develops products and gets them to market faster, provides better support for their use and manages their end-of-life. PLM brings together several activities such as Computer Aided Design, Product Data Management, Sustainable Development, Enterprise Resource Planning, Life Cycle Analysis and Recycling. The book introduces PLM and explains its importance from both the business and technical viewpoints, supported by examples; it explains how world-class engineering and manufacturing companies are implementing PLM successfully. The book provides brilliantly a holistic view of product development, support, use and disposal for industry worldwide, based on experience with internationally renowned companies. This book is a must for all product manufacturing companies of 21st Century
Krishna B. Misra
Review published in the International Journal of Performability Engineering, Vo. 4, No. 2, April 2008, p. 182.
Review published in the International Journal of Performability Engineering, Vol. 4, No. 2, April 2008, p. 182.
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