Course description

Product lifcycle management, sometimes "Product Life Cycle Management", represents an all-encompassing vision for managing all data relating to the design, production, support and ultimate disposal of manufactured goods.

PLM concept were first introduced where safety and control have been extremely important, notably the aerospace, medical device, military and nuclear industries. These industries oriented the discipline of configuration management(CM), which evolved into electronic data management systems (EDMS), which then further evolved to production data mismanagement (PDM).

Over the last years, manufacturers of instrumentation, industrial machinery, consumer electronics, packaged good and other complex engineered products have discovered the benefits of PLM solutions and are adopting efficient PLM software in increasing numbers.

What will i learn?

• 1. A Lean approach: Digitized Lean practices offer intuitive tools that leverage Lean methodologies to reduce or eliminate non-value-added work and ensure efficient processes.
• 2. Project management methodology: Quality methods are governed as projects with automated and event-driven tasks, change orders and actions, and a model-based enterprise approach for requirements and functions.
• 3. Risk-based thinking: As part of quality management risks are managed, controlled and synchronized with controlling tasks throughout all design, manufacturing and services processes. Fully embedded tools, such as FMEA and FTA, link directly to designs, product definitions and process flows. All quality decisions are based on risk thinking.
• 4. Complaints, deviations and non-conformance management: Customer complaints and non-conformance's are managed and directly linked to the product definitions, reusing past experiences either for efficient resolution or to enrich the know-how database.
• 5. Audits for compliance: A fully traced process — from idealization to go-to-market — with audit and inspections tools allows for continual and seamless compliance with regulations and internal requirements.