This paper proposes a novel methodology of distributed PLM platform deployment. It efficiently incorporates PLM technologies to support collaborative product development in a global enterprise with multiple distributed sites. The methodology systematically analyzes a company’s PLM requirements from the Organizational, Application, and Data perspectives. A customized network configuration plan c...

Phoslactomycins (PLMs), potent and selective inhibitors of serine threonine phosphatases, are of interest for their antitumor and antiviral activity. Multiple analogs and low titers in the fermentation process have hampered the development of this class of natural products. The entire 75-kb PLM biosynthetic gene cluster of Streptomyces sp. HK-803 was cloned, sequenced, and analyzed. The loading...

Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) domain is at a key point in its development: its concepts and technologies are mature. PLM systems not only manage documents but information associated to a product along its lifecycle, such as Bills-Of-Material (BOM) or requirements at different levels of granularity. All the dependencies between concepts lead to complex relationships from which it is not eas...

Recently, the tendency of companies to adopt a PLM (product lifecycle management) strategy is increasing and asks for guidelines and reference frameworks to which screen the own organizational situation and drive improvements. Several scholars and managers have argued about PLM using a business and a technological view. Based on the need of Finmeccanica corporate to provide its companies with a...

To this day, as a result of increasing PLM penetration and continuously changing company structures, several PLM solutions have evolved over time and now exist in parallel within many companies. Disharmonized PLM solutions can impede productivity and flexibility in cross-division cooperation and company-internal reorganization projects. A lot of companies carry out PLM harmonization projects wi...

In this paper, we define the concept of probabilistic like Menger (probabilistic like quasi Menger) space (briefly, PLM-space (PLqM-space)). We present some coupled fixed point and fixed point results for certain contraction type maps in partially order PLM-spaces (PLqM- spaces).

Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) is increasingly important for organizations acting in dynamic and competitive markets. In practice however, companies struggle with adopting and implementing PLM. PLM is rather a concept than a system, as its main premises are to improve competitive advantage through agility and innovation. The concept implies structural, crossfunctional and long-term cooperat...

In recent years, naval shipyards have increased their demand for the integration of CAD (computer aided design) applications with PLM (product lifecycle management) systems. This demand is usually addressed with file-oriented CAD systems, consisting of controlling the CAD model and assembly files in the PLM system, where those specific model relationships are reproduced and managed. However, in...

An important question for IS researchers and practitioners is how IT can improve new product development (NPD) in an international co-development context. More precisely, this paper aims at understanding how Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) technology contributes to NPD knowledge integration and to process reliability in this environment. It is based on a longitudinal case study of a French i...

This introduction to the plm package is a slightly modified version of Croissant and Millo (2008), published in the Journal of Statistical Software. Panel data econometrics is obviously one of the main fields in the profession, but most of the models used are difficult to estimate with R. plm is a package for R which intends to make the estimation of linear panel models straightforward. plm pro...