Hype or Reality: Service Oriented Architecture in Product Lifecycle Management - How IBM Can Help You Achieve Innovation That Matters

摘要

Products are becoming more complex due to rapid technical innovations, especially with the increase in electronics and software content even inside traditionally mechanical products. Furthermore, the design and supply chain of products have become more complex as well, with suppliers taking greater part in the design process of the overall system, often taking responsibility for the design and manufacturing of major subsystems. These challenges are causing manufacturing companies to rethink their business processes and systems for product lifecycle management. We'll discuss how the current progress on enterprise application and infrastructure architecture based on service orientation (SOA) can enable the manufacturing companies to allow creation of highly integrated product lifecycle management processes, from the product concept to the product maintenance and retirement, while keeping the processes and the supporting systems flexible enough to easily adapt to changing business environments.