Product lifecycle management : 21st century paradigm for product realisation / John Stark.

Includes index.

Ch. 1. Executive overview of PLM -- Ch. 2. Introduction to PLM -- Ch. 3. Progress depends on retentiveness -- Ch. 4. The opportunities and benefits of PLM -- Ch. 5. The rationale for PLM -- Ch. 6. Different views of PLM -- Ch. 7. You start here -- in the details of the PLM swamp -- Ch. 8. PLM has the answers -- Ch. 9. Some components of PLM -- Ch. 10. Uncoordinated incoherent improvement initiatives -- Ch. 11. Coherent vision, strategy, plan, resources, metrics -- Ch. 12. A company's PLM vision -- Ch. 13. The process of PLM visioning -- Ch. 14. Structure for the PLM vision -- Ch. 15. A strategy to achieve the vision -- Ch. 16. Industrial strategies -- Ch. 17. Principles for the PLM strategy.

"Product Lifecycle Management: 21st Century Paradigm for Product Realisation explains the importance of PLM, from both the business and technical viewpoints, supported by examples showing how world-class engineering and manufacturing companies are implementing PLM successfully."--Jacket.