Standards-Based Product Lifecycle Management -- STEP into PLM

摘要

What is PLM. Product Lifestyle Management (PLM) is an integrated information-driven approach to all aspects of a product's life, from its conceptual design through manufacture, deployment and maintenance--culminating in the product's removal from service and final disposal. PLM software suites enable accessing, updating, manipulating and reasoning about product information that is being produced in fragmented and distributed environment. Another definition of PLM is the integration of business systems to manage a product's life cycle.