Product Lifecycle Management PLM

Fiedler s contingency theory shows the relationship between the leader s orientation or style and group performance under different situational conditions. Fiedler found that task oriented leaders were more effective in low and moderate control situations and relationship oriented managers were more effective in moderate control situations (http //www.valuebasedmanagement.net/methods contingen-cy theory.html visited on 25 Sept 2010). 

In order to move towards a demand driven supply and operations management, it is important to have senior management support and engagement to make the necessary changes in term of tools, processes and organizational culture, as detailed below  

Supply chain directors should also perform educational workshops with other directors and the CEO (chief executive officer) to allow them understands the differences between a pure push operation to a hybrid or a pure pull operation, depending on the objectives of the company. 

In this section, it will be performed a literature review for each one of the six categories of Product Lifecycle management - New Product Forecast, Supply chain Approach for New Product, Risk Assessment and Management, Product Tracking Visibility, Portfolio Optimization, Senior Management Support. This review allowed identify the DDSC characteristics for each category which was used to develop the five level maturity model. 

Based on Kahn (2005), product innovation - the development of new and improved products - is crucial to the survival and prosperity of the modem corporation. He stated that according to an American Productivity and Quality Control (APQC) benchmarking smdy, new products launched 3 years before the study, accounted for 27.5 of company sales, on average (American Productivity and Quality Center 

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The last component of the DDSC is the Product Lifecycle Management (PLM). In this area, as it can be seen in Fig. 7.9, both Uruguay and USA currently have a basic push operation (level 1), which can be translated as a lack of an organization culture that foster innovation. Brazil is already in an optimized push performance (level 2) regarding PLM. For future performance, all operations target to become an optimized Push-Pull (level 3), where PLM is implemented for both new product introduction and portfolio optimization. 

Recently Indesit Company has started looking at Product-Service concepts to innovate its solution portfolio, create new business opportunities and enhance sustainability [50]. It means introducing a new service-oriented approach and the shift from product lifecycle management (PLM) to service lifecycle management (SLM) [51]. It means to manage not simply the product but also services and the necessary infrastructure along the value chain. 

CIMdata (2010) Product lifecycle management (PLM) definition. ht //www.cimdata.com/ plm/definition.html. Accessed 25 Eeb 2014... 

AirDesign (Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) collaboration, DMU sharing)... 

Seven key areas that define the level of CE in PDF were recognised. CE models from the literature [10] were compared with specific requests in the machinery sector and known CE assessment models [11, 12, 14]. The authors have tested and supplemented the CE criteria during several product lifecycle management (PLM) apphcation projects and process analyses. The CE criteria or methods are presented below, first in general form, later more specifically for different kinds of production processes. Our key criteria or methods for CE are ... 

Veldhuizen MMJ (2011) Capital project lifecycle management (CPLM) vs. product lifecycle management (PLM) for shipbuilding, marine and offshore industries. In Proceedings of international conference on computer application in shipbuilding 2011, vol 1, paper 8... 

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