Académique Documents
Professionnel Documents
Culture Documents
Company mergers
Changed organization
These factors: -- > will ensure that changes being made in the design work will be more rational and faultless, -- > will increase the value of existing applications.
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Causes of problems
Difficulties in retrieving and controlling product data often lead to unwanted short cuts in operations model, The product data concerning component items is not up to date and is unreliable, There are difficulties in the internal and external communication of the company regarding product data and the changes that have taken place in it. 13
The item management of the company is not in order, The companys own component design and manufacturing is inefficient, Procurement buys the same type of components from different suppliers for different products, Product development and sourcing each maintain large amounts of overlapping information, The company makes overly fast and uncontrolled changes in the design of the product.
Causes of problems
Scattered product data over several separate information management systems (with no links). Separately maintained essential pieces of product data in separate product management systems. Push principle distribution of information. 15
Converting individual knowledge into intellectual capital available to the whole organization, Controlling and managing product data and product knowledge in electronic form, Reusing of existing information, Reducing the resources used in retrieving, maintaining, and transferring product related 16 information.
Costs of quality
Typical problems
Faulty or incomplete product design, Faulty product units during production or even after delivery, Problematic manufacturing , Returned products for repair under guarantee. Consuming work to handle problematic situations.
Causes of problems
Complexity of products and their processes, Lack of traceability in change management. Slowness of change processes. Shortcomings in the traceability of the orderdelivery process and of individual product content. 17
Costs of quality
Indicators to measure operations
Development potential brought by PLM
Ability to produce:
quality products ,
Ability to reduce:
manufacturing defects, guarantee claims.
Greater ability to improve quality with the help of efficient, streamlined product processes. Fast, efficient change management, Traceability of change management and design 18 history.
statistical analyses
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Data warehousing
The IT systems that support the different co functions. Data warehousing.