Abstract
Product Life-cycle Management (PLM) is a wide research issue exploring the information and knowledge in the entire product lifecycle to improve and increase innovation for a given product. The management of the information and knowledge related to the whole life cycle is supported by different Knowledge Management tools such as Product Data Management (PDM) and Expert Systems. PLM receives support from PDM systems in the many activities of the lifecycle from product design and creation, through dissemination and after sales services, up to product dismissal and recycling. Besides PDM systems, there are other knowledge management tools which haven’t been integrated into the PLM. A particular shortcoming to integrate tools and techniques for the design process within a PLM environment is the lack of a PLM tools taxonomy. This paper presents a new PLM tools taxonomy to support product realisation process
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