Literature review and methodological framework for integration of IoT and PLM in manufacturing industry

Abstract

Since its emergence a few decades ago, Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) has mainly shaped product development and production engineering and helped achieve a tremendous quickening in processes and operations. On the other hand, Internet of Things (IoT) is currently in very strong emergence and people's interest in it is increasingly growing. Surprisingly, interaction between IoT and PLM systems are very scarce to this day. Industrialists have enabled a few connections when and where return on investment was high and certain. However, nowadays, the struggle for systems integration remains as the culture difference between PLM’s engineering background and IoT’s computer science background remains. This research work aims to bridge the gap by making explicit all previous research on PLM and IoT through a systematic literature review that explicits IoT’s evolving perimeter over the latest decade. It also tackles literature’s approach between the PLM & IoT information systems and humans. It finally proposes and discusses a framework supporting the integration of PLM and IoT in manufacturing industry.