Defining Product Lifecycle Management: A Journey across Features, Definitions, and Concepts

Table 3

Summary of the literature review.

Critical review

Industrial definitions

Academic definitions

Features on PLM

CimData [3]

Ford Motor Company [17]

Sudarsan et al. [18]

Codrino [14]

PLM Technology Guide [7]

Active Sensing, Inc. [15]

Aras Corporation [16]

Garetti and Terzi [4]

Stackpole [19]

Rangan et al. [22]

Grieves [10]

Abramovici [20]

Ming et al. [13]

Rachuri et al. [23]

Saaksvuori and Immonen [2]

Schuh et al. [24]

Stark [25]

Managerial

Integrated; Approach

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

Business strategy

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

Creating value

X

X

X

X

X

X

Design, production,; and maintenance; phases

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

Technological

Product; Information; Backbone

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

IT tools (CAX,; PDM, …)

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

Secondary; information

X

X

Traceability

Long-term; archiving

Collaborative

Integrating people,; process, and data

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

Sharing

X

X

X

X

X

X

Within and across; extended Enterprise

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X