Talk:Product lifecycle/Archives/2017

How PLM software can implement ...
... ideas in the wiki article how this is accomplished.

Consider adding new Wiki article on PLM software similar to available CAE software. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_CAD_editors_for_CAE. Much is done via version/rev controls on the drawing, but advanced software: Smarteam and TeamCenter among others are used to lock down revisions, change revisions, prevent concurrent design, enable document/part sharing over outsourced/geographically separate locations and to facilitate release process to manufacturing and create documents for supplier specification sheets & T&D reports that can be utilized to verify final designs according to ISO standards testing. A link to a wiki article on Hardware: i.e. Automobiles, airplanes or more simply a toaster might be relevant as most readers should understand the concepts of product development as pertaining to the PLM.Mredit15 (talk) 02:40, 30 July 2014 (UTC)


 * most of what is described here falls under what I would call Configuration Management, as distinct from any lifecycle management function. So I don't think a long description of those functions are required in this article. It would be sufficient to say "PLM suites aid in CM processes as well as their core function", or some such. Matt Whyndham (talk) 09:06, 24 February 2017 (UTC)


 * " lock down revisions, change revisions, prevent concurrent design, enable document/part sharing over outsourced/geographically separate locations and to facilitate release process to manufacturing and create documents for supplier specification sheets & T&D reports that can be utilized to verify final designs according to ISO standards testing."

"Lifecycle" is not a word in English
For some reason the software industry prefers to the alternative spelling "lifecycle". However, the Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary has an entry for "life cycle" when you search for "lifecycle". Definition 3 seems suitable for the life cycles of manufactured products, including software.

Pgrisier (talk) 18:05, 11 March 2015 (UTC)

Yes it is (M-WCD is not an official catalogue of English words, no more than any other dictionary). Indeed, within the subset of English used in the Systems Engineering discipline (or profession, if you like) "lifecycle" is a commonly accepted word. Indeed, it's use is a signal that the user is in fact, a professional systems engineer. I use it on a daily basis, without any spaces or hyphens. Matt Whyndham (talk) 08:58, 24 February 2017 (UTC)

History section a bit wild
The current article states that

- PLM approach developed in the mid to late 80s by auto makers - in the early 80's PLM was employed for the B1-B (aircraft) (nice bit of time travel there!)

OK, so we can maybe cope with a bit of convergent development, and imagine the influences. But the implication that AMC invented the whole thing is a bit steep. What really occurred is unknown to me, but I suspect it will have been a development of a variety of holistic (as in, the whole life of the product) [Systems Engineering] approaches, which the aerospace/defence and automative worlds have been at the centre of for a long time. How the ideas moved around and were adapted in the various contexts is perhaps beyond the scope of this article. Matt Whyndham (talk) 09:12, 24 February 2017 (UTC)

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