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Product Lifecycle Management
Scope of the Journal Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) is generally defined as a strategic business approach for the effective management and use of corporate intellectual capital. Today, challenges faced by product development teams include globalisation, outsourcing, mass customisation, fast innovation and product traceability. These challenges enhance the need for collaborating environments and knowledge management along the product lifecycle stages. PLM systems are gaining acceptance for managing all information about the corporation’s products throughout their full lifecycle, from conceptualisation to operations and disposal. The PLM philosophy and systems aim at providing support to an even broader range of engineering and business activities. The IJPLM provides an authoritative source of information in the field of PLM, and is devoted to the development, promotion and coordination of the science and practice of the PLM field. Subject coverage: The areas covered by the journal include, but are not limited to: • PLM infrastructure and implementation processes • Business strategies and benefits • Organisational change management and PLM • Cultural change and the implementation of PLM solutions • PLM user requirements and innovative methods to understand customer preferences • PLM virtual and simulation environments • Interoperability and security issues • Relationship with SCM, SRM, CRM, etc • Collaboration environments and knowledge management • Emerging PLM standards and best practices • PLM metrics and benchmarking • PLM and the environment • PLM educational and training approaches
International Journal of
Product Lifecycle Management
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Members of the Editorial Board Editor-in-Chief Prof. Abdelaziz Bouras Lumiere Lyon II University, France
Associate Editor Prof. Sudarsan Rachuri George Washington University and National Institute of Standards and Technology, USA
Dr. Raj Iyer TARDEC R&D Engineering Center, USA Dr. Ricardo Jardim-Goncalves New University of Lisbon, PORTUGAL Dr. Rajiv Khoshoo UGS, USA
Regional Editors ASIA Prof. Balan Gurumoorthy Indian Institute of Science, India EUROPE AND OTHER REGIONS Prof. Alain Bernard IRCCyN Institute and Department of Engineering of Industrial Products and Processes, France
Editorial Board
Stephane Lebail Marcy-l’Etoile, France Dr. Omar Lopez-Ortega Universidad Autónoma del Estado de Hidalgo, Mexico Prof. Andrew Y.C. Nee National University of Singapore, Singapore
Dr. Gahl Berkooz Ford Motor Company, USA
Dr. Gilles Neubert Lumiere University of Lyon, France
Francis Bernard Dassault Systems, France
Dr. Yacine Ouzrout Lumiere University of Lyon, France
Prof. Jean-Marc Brun University of Marseilles, France
Dr. Mike Pratt LMR Systems, UK
Prof. Debasish Dutta University of Michigan, USA
Dr. Steve Ray MEL Laboratory, USA
Prof. Omar El-Beqqali University S. M. Ben Abdallah, Morocco
Dr. Nickolas S. Sapidis University of the Aegean, Greece
Dr. Benoît Eynard Troyes University of Technology, France
Prof. Janat Shah Indian Institute of Management, India
Nicolas Figay EADS, France
Prof. Eswran Subrahmanian Carnegie Mellon University, USA
Prof. Marco Garetti Politecnico di Milano Technical University, Italy
Prof. Michel Tollenaere INPG National Polytechnical Institute of Grenoble, France
Herbert Heinzel Business Process Training Center Europe, and SCOR Council, Germany
Prof. Fred Van Houten University of Twente, Netherlands
Prof. Hans-Henrik Hvolby Aalborg University, Denmark
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Methods of payment Content of Inaugural Issue of IJPLM
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VOL. 1(1), 2005 Product lifecycle management support: a challenge in supporting product design and manufacturing in a networked economy Eswaran Subrahmanian, Sudarsan Rachuri, Steven J. Fenves, Sebti Foufou, Ram D. Sriram
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Information management for through life product support: the curation of digital engineering data Chris McMahon, Matt Giess, Steve Culley
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Organisational change and knowledge management in PLM implementation Marco Garetti, Sergio Terzi, Norma Bertacci, Maurizio Brianza
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Compared implementations of PDM systems based on UML specifications Christophe Merlo, Benoit Eynard, Philippe Girard, Aurelien Odinot, Thomas Gallet
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Mathematical theory of dimensioning and parameterising product geometry Vijay Srinivasan
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ISO 10303, the STEP standard for product data exchange, and its PLM capabilities Michael J. Pratt
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