Abstract
Recently, the tendency of companies to adopt a PLM (product lifecycle management) strategy is increasing and asks for guidelines and reference frameworks to which screen the own organizational situation and drive improvements. Several scholars and managers have argued about PLM using a business and a technological view. Based on the need of Finmeccanica corporate to provide its companies with a reference guidelines on PLM addressing organizational and technological elements, the paper systematically analyzes models and frameworks available in literature and web-sites. The aim is to provide a set of structured key components useful to guide an exploitation of a corporate associates PLM. Models and frameworks have been organized in three categories (Academic Models, Commercial Models and Enterprise Architecture Frameworks) and fully analyzed. A four-sections PLM model has been specified supported by the evidences coming from literature. The paper provides insights for companies working in complex environment and for theoreticians.
Highlights
In companies involved in complex sectors, such as the aerospace & defense ones, characterized by high technological complexity, high product variety, significant customers participation in product specification, low volume per product and high involvement of stakeholders [1; 2], a strategic approach based on product lifecycle management (PLM) provides a systematic view in integrated technologies and methodologies to manage the product data, information and knowledge
A recognized weakness of narrative literature review is the lack of systematization of the used criteria but to increase the validity of the realized narrative literature review we have followed the guidelines suggested by Green et al [7], and the general literature review techniques suggested by Creswell [8]
With the proposed Framework, the aim is to provide a pragmatic view around PLM highlighting and representing an organic and integrated structure of processes, activities, data and IT tools related to a specific product lifecycle
Summary
In companies involved in complex sectors, such as the aerospace & defense ones, characterized by high technological complexity, high product variety, significant customers participation in product specification, low volume per product and high involvement of stakeholders [1; 2], a strategic approach based on product lifecycle management (PLM) provides a systematic view in integrated technologies and methodologies to manage the product data, information and knowledge. Several authors have argued about PLM using a business or a technological view and they have analyzed and developed models and frameworks creating a large knowledge base distributed on scientific and commercial documents and web-sites. It is possible to assume a model as a representation of a real event with its features for satisfying a research scope. Based on the research aim, a model on the same “event” can be different to another one
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