A product lifecycle management methodology for supporting knowledge reuse in the consumer packaged goods domain

A product lifecycle management methodology for supporting knowledge reuse in the consumer packaged goods domain

The present globalised market is forcing many companies to invest in new strategies and tools for supporting knowledge management. This aspect is becoming a key factor in the industrial competitiveness for the presence of extended enterprises that normally deal with huge data exchange and share processes. This scenario is due to the presence of partners, geographically distributed over the enti...

Knowledge Collaborative Product Lifecycle Management

This chapter defines a system and a methodology, the Knowledge Collaborative Product Lifecycle Management (KC-PLM) to better support the complete product lifecycle in the industry. The KC-PLM system intends to reduce the lead-time from new product development to production by providing and integrating knowledge platform, based on a semantic information repository, domain ontology, a domain spec...

Product Lifecycle Management: Closing the Knowledge Loops

Competitive success of manufacturing firms is by and large determined by the success of the products they introduce to the market. This is why companies continuously try to improve the efficacy of their product realization process. Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) is a business solution which aims to streamline the flow of information about the product and related processes throughout the pro...

A Case for Supply Chain Carbon Management in the Consumer Packaged Goods Industry

Supporting the Domain Lifecycle

CASE tools are notorious for forcing organizations to adapt to a standard development methodology. The underlying assumption is that a universally applicable development method exists and it is up to the organization to conform to that method. But software development is no longer a homogeneous field. As computers are applied to an increasingly diverse set of applications, it is becoming increa...