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2. Rationale for the approach and origin of the term PLM
Companies have always been subject to competitive pressures, and their development and even survival have depended on their ability to control production costs.
With globalization, competition from "low-cost" countries has meant that new product development cycles have had to be accelerated in order to offer alternative competition. The growing complexity of these products calls on multiple disciplines, including on-board electronics and computing, and manufacturing optimizations have proved insufficient.
2.1 A market-driven approach
The pressure of fierce competition has led companies to shorten the time-to-market of their new products, even as they have become increasingly complex. At the same time, the growing demand for quality,...
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Bibliography
- (1) - RENE (D.) - Langages de programmation en commande numérique de machines-outils. - Récupéré sur HAL Archives ouvertes (1969) https://tel.archives-ouvertes.fr/file/index/docid/281601/filename/2eme_these_David.Rene_1969.pdf ...
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News
Projet Ingenum, PSA lifts the veil. Harvest n° 64 (2001)
PSA Group: the digital factory. Harvest (2004)
Time for PLM for SMEs – Harvest 105
PLM for SMEs: should you fear complexity? Harvest 106
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Standards and norms
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_10303 - STEP ISO 10303 -
- The STEP Standard for Product Data Exchange Michael (J.) Pratt http://server4.org/download.php?id=14276 - Introduction to ISO 10303 -
- http://www.asd-ssg.org/step-ap242 - STEP AP 242 -
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