Special Issue On: New Research Advances In Product Lifecycle Management

摘要

In the modern global economy, companies are facing ever-increasing challenges for shortening time-to-market, for entering new market early, for developing market share, and for maximizing returns on their investments. Product lifecycle management (PLM) is recognized as one of the key leading technologies to overcome these challenges. PLM offers companies an integrated way to rapidly plan, organize, manage, measure, and deliver new products or services to their customers.rnPLM provides customers, developers, manufacturers, and suppliers with the most effective means of colla-boratively managing business activities throughout product development. PLM supports the capability of creation, management, share, and use of product data, information, and knowledge in virtual enterprise networks by integrating people, processes, and technology. PLM systems manage a portfolio of products, processes, and services from its initial conception, through design and manufacture, to service and disposal.