Product Lifecycle Management

Due to the widespread use of team-oriented work today, the engineer in development and design is becoming more and more involved in the planning, procurement and production process. To cope with these tasks, he needs new methods of decision support and information gathering, as the conventional approaches of product data management are not sufficient. New strategies for product lifecycle management contain additional functional scopes to support the internal and external collaboration of development partners, the supply chain process, product portfolio management, and customer needs management. The book supports the planning, decision making and implementation of suitable solution concepts.