PLM Assists in All Phases of a Product’s Lifecycle
March 22, 2012
Product lifecycle management (PLM) has taken on a life of its own. 360 Enterprise Software breaks down a product lifecycle into five phases and explains how PLM can assist in each phase in their article “PLM Fundamentals: PLM’s Role in the 5 Phases of the Product Lifecycle.”
The first phase is planning and PLM applications can store ideas from “brainstorming sessions, collaborations and meetings.” Then the second and third phases are design and realize. CAD is often a major part of both phases and that information can be stored and distributed by PLM software. Support/service phase is the fourth and:
“When salespeople need information about a product quickly, they can turn to PLM’s collaboration tools to get in touch with the necessary and available product experts through an impromptu chat or discussion online. Also, technical support and service technicians can refer to product data stored in the company’s PLM applications…”
The final phase is retire/dispose can rely on PLM to determine if a “product can be safely disposed of and possibly recycled.”
CAD and PLM are virtually essential in a product lifecycle. Companies like Inforbix know this and are developing key software to assist in CAD data retrieval. Inforbix software helps users find, reuse and share product data throughout the company. We expect for PLM to become even more important as software development continue.
Jennifer Wensink, March 22, 2012
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