| | |  | Lean Product Development | Home » » » » Product Lifecycle Management: Driving the Next Generation of Lean Thinking | | | | | | | Description: | | Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) is the newest wave in productivity. This revolutionary approach is an outcome of lean thinking; however, PLM eliminates waste and efficiency across all aspects of a product's life--from design to deployment--not just in its manufacture. By using people, product information, processes, and technology to reduce wasted time, energy, and material across an organization and into the supply chain, PLM drives the next generation of lean thinking. Now PLM pioneer Michael Grieves offers everyone from Six Sigma and lean practitioners to supply chain managers, product developers, and consultants a proven framework for adopting this information-driven approach. Product Lifecycle Management shows you how to greatly enhance your firm's productivity by integrating the efforts of your entire organization. Most companies are seeing the returns of their efforts in lean methods diminishing, as the most fruitful applications have already been addressed. Here, Grieves reveals how PLM gives you an opportunity to make improvements both within and across functional areas in order to increase agility, optimize efficiency, and reduce costs across the board. He gives you the most comprehensive view of PLM available, fully outlining its characteristics, method, and tools and helping you assess your organizational readiness. There's also proven examples from the field, where PLM is being widely adopted by leading companies, including General Motors, General Electric, and Dell, that are widely adopting the approach. You'll see how PLM has saved these companies billions in unnecessary costs and shaved as much as 60% off cycle times. With this book you'll learn how to: - Develop and implement your PLM strategy to support your corporate objectives
- Engage all your employees in using information to eliminate waste
- Enable improved information flow
- Better organize and utilize your intellectual capital
- Foster an environment that drives PLM
Lean manufacturing can only take your organization so far. To bring your productivity to the next level and save remarkable amounts of time, money, and resources, Product Lifecycle Management is your one-stop, hands-on guide to implementing this powerful methodology. | | | Product Details: | | | Author:
| Michael Grieves | | Hardcover:
| 288 pages | | Publisher:
| McGraw-Hill | | Publication Date:
| October 26, 2005 | | Language:
| English | | ISBN:
| 0071452303 | | Product Length:
| 9.18 inches | | Product Width:
| 6.36 inches | | Product Height:
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| 1.36 pounds | | Package Length:
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| 1.35 pounds | | Average Customer Rating:
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12 of 13 found the following review helpful:
 The Primer on PLMFeb 22, 2006
By Spyder Lockhart
Grieves book on PLM is a fundamental primer on a subject basic to anyone involved devloping, marketing, buying and using a product. In other words, if your in business you should read this book. Importantly, his overview is comprehensive and provides a complete framework for understanding the scope and complexity of the practice in the modern manufacturing environment. The message is clear, you can't buy Product Lifecycle Management, you have to do Product Life Cycle Management. Whether your just beginning to look at PLM or are re-configuring your current capabilities, I would recomend everyone involved give this book a thorough read. I know my team will.
10 of 13 found the following review helpful:
Clearly the next step for collaborative managementJul 13, 2006
By Marshall Toplansky
I think that Dr. Grieves book presents a compelling next step in how companies AND their outsourced suppliers can collaborate over the entire lifetime of the customer relationship to insure that customers continue to get satisfaction from their products.
Think about it this way: If you are buying a car that you are going to own for 5 years, don't you want to make sure that 4 years in to that ownership experience, the company that makes the fuel injection system has told the dealer about its new, updated software system for improving mileage . . . so you can get the benefit from it?
Without a unified approach to sharing information across functions and across time, there is no way the car company, the outsourced supplier and the dealer could make that happen. That is the essential breakthrough of PLM thinking, and Dr. Grieves does a great job of explaining it.
There is a lot of value here for companies in any industry that is characterized by a global, interconnected supply chain and a rapidly changing product lifecycle.
Marshall Toplansky
CEO
Core Strategies, Inc.
Irvine, CA
1 of 1 found the following review helpful:
The Future of ProductsDec 05, 2010
By Avid Amazon Reader
"Avid Amazon Reader"
This book is the foremost primer on PLM. It defines PLM, providing the most comprehensive perspective of how to maximize your organization's capabilities and increase efficiencies through better use of people, product information, processes/practices, and technology. It also provides the framework and tools required to help you assess your organization's readiness for PLM.
It is apparent that Dr. Grieves has vast experience and knowledge of the PLM field as well as the issues facing global businesses. He draws from his personal experiences with a myriad of businesses in a wide array of industries to provide real world examples and share his views and insights into the organizational need for PLM implementation to remain globally competitive. This is a must read for those in the Manufacturing sector that are required to develop products that are globally competitive. And what products are not in today's global economy?
This thought provoking book will assist you in taking your organization to the next level.
4 of 6 found the following review helpful:
 Average bookDec 12, 2007
By Prakash Rao
Most of the book is broad generalities - 'Silos are bad', 'Sharing product information across the organization is good' etc. No revelations, nothing new in this book. Maybe, just maybe it was relevant in 2005.
What took the cake was a section where the author tells us that, in the period 1973-2003, GM has grown 5.3x, Ford 7.1, GE 11.1x and Walmart 2031x! OK, wow! I am impressed that Walmart has grown so much more compared to GM, Ford and GE. I read on to see where this is going. Maybe he is going to tell us why the industrial companies lag Walmart, and how it ties in to PLM.
But no, in one broad sweep, the author tells us that the use of Information Systems is the only reason for this growth, not factors like "... organizational efficiency, ... current crop of executives ..., new methods of production ..."
What a senseless contention! If the intent was to stress the importance of IS, there are a thousand other ways to do it.
Overall, a book written without too much thought, or much research.
1 of 4 found the following review helpful:
PLM casts a short shadowDec 21, 2007
By William K. Westray
The theme is the same, IT rules and is the source of management for a company. It is disappointing that even in this age and past experience someone believes that an IT solution is the only way. There is no data or research unless you believe that Ford and GM are examples of best business practices.
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