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Set of features | Key dimensions | Description |
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Managerial features | Integrated approach | It means the act of dealing with PLM considering its different related aspects (e.g., information, technology, and strategic points of view). |
Business strategy | It is how an organization takes decisions and manages resources to gain and maintain a competitive advantage over a period of time. |
Creating value | It is the primary goal of every business; it means performing activities that increase the value of organization’s goods or services, generating wealth for its shareholders, and satisfying customers’ expectations. |
Design, production, and maintenance phases | They refer to the different stages of the entire product lifecycle from its conception, through design and manufacture, to service and disposal. |
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Technological features | Product information backbone | It means a central hub storing different data distributed among heterogeneous systems; it creates a single view of product information that can be leveraged across the whole organization and its network. |
IT tools (CAX, PDM, etc.) | They encompass a board range of software and IT systems used in all the aspects of product lifecycle (design, analysis, manufacturing, production planning, product testing, collaboration, etc.). |
Secondary information | It is all the information indirectly connected to the specific product knowledge (e.g., vendor application notes, catalogs, customer feedbacks, marketing plans, archived project schedules, etc.). |
Traceability | It means the ability to chronologically interrelate product lifecycle information and to track all accesses and changes to the data. |
Long-term archiving | It refers to the organizational need for long-term retention of older data; it helps an enterprise to maintain information integrity and demonstrate regulatory compliance and transparency. |
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Collaborative features | Integrating people, and process, data | It means combining in a unique approach different aspects related to PLM (business processes, human resources, data, etc.) so that they work together to better product lifecycle management. |
Sharing | It means using or enjoying data and information jointly with others in order to enable knowledge integration during collaborations in the product lifecycle. |
Within and across extended enterprise | It means a borderless organization whose processes are transformed and integrated with the ones of its partners, based on cooperative and collaborative relations. |
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