Product lifecycle management

The administration of the Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) is the process that manages the complete lifecycle of a product from conception through design and manufacturing to service and disposal. Is the management, through integrated solutions for software, the complete life cycle of the product, from product design solutions CAD (Computer Aided Design), through analysis and optimization of product solutions CAE (Computer Aided Engineering), reaching as analysis will produce and maintain the product with DMF solutions (Digital Manufacturing) and capturing, reusing and sharing with each of the actors in the production cycle all the information generated at each stage solutions above PDM (Product Data Management)
PLM is a set of capabilities that allow a company effectively manage and innovate their products and services related to them, over their economic life. It is one of the four pillars of infrastructure of information technology in a corporation. The other three pillars can be described as follows:
All companies need to manage communication and information with their customers (Management Customer Relationship or 'Customer Relationship Management' - CRM), their suppliers (Management or Supplier Relationship 'Supply Chain Management' - SCM) and resources of the enterprise (Enterprise Resource Planning or 'Enterprise Resource Planning' - ERP). In addition, manufacturing and engineering companies to develop, describe, manage and communicate information about their products.
Management Solutions Lifecycle
Solutions CAD, CAE, PDM DMF and have outgrown their basic function reaching capabilities never before considered. A CAD solution is no longer a simple software mechanical design software to become a designer of systems with specific capabilities for each type of product, existing mechanical design software for plant design, for design of electronic components, design pipes, complex surface design to automotive, to industrial design, etc..
CAE solutions exist with basic skills such as structural analysis, up to advanced capabilities such as analysis and simulation of fluids, thermal analysis and simulation, electromagnetic impact, etc.
Digital manufacturing solutions exist with common capabilities such as process flow simulation of a production line, up to the simulation and ergonomic analysis, simulation and analysis of robots, assembly simulations, simulations of machines numerical control, etc.
There are solutions that can manage all this information to make it available to all players in the entire process, with a level of safety-critical and additional functionality for personalization, defining process flows, and cost analysis which can capture and reuse information and best practices generated to reduce time to market of new products.