Product lifecycle management (PLM) software has been promising to make product development and ‘design for x’ integration easier for years. Uptake across manufacturing sectors however, has reflected scepticism among potential users. TM takes a look at PLM maturity.
Future perfect It’s taken a while, but the PLM dream of simultaneous engineering is finally here. Malcolm Wheatley reports A few short years makes a lot of difference. Not so long ago, the buzz in new product development was simultaneous engineering—the idea of different functions in the business working on new products in parallel, rather…
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