The Pratical Research Of Product Lifecycle Management

PLM means product lifecycle management, which is a kind of management information system based on product lifecycle management theory. Implement of PLM will help a company save its cost and increase its profit markedly, especially in research and development field. In accord with the status this thesis analyzed how the PLM theory and the information system were applied in a manufacturing enterprise to improve the process at the enterprise's point view and used the case-study method. This thesis came from a PLM project. Firstly, it reviewed related theories and introduced the PLM concept, the composing and architecture of the PLM platform. Then the thesis discussed the problems which were encountered in the deployment and corresponding solutions. The problems included how to selected a PLM platform supplier, how the project could be organized so that makes it successful and how to evaluate the results. In the fourth chapter, it gave a real case of implementing a PLM platform for a Telecommunication company. Through analysis and research of the procedure of PLM implement it found out the practical problems and solved part of them. In the last chapter, the thesis drew out the summary and the outlook of feature PLM system.