Chapter 5: Collaborative Environments

Title: Negotiation based product lifecycle management (PLM) implementation

Author(s): Guenther Schuh, Michael Lenders, Ju-Young Uam

Address: Laboratory for Machine Tools and Production Engineering WZL, RWTH Aachen University, Chair of Production Engineering, Steinbachstrasse 19, D-52074 Aachen, Germany | Laboratory for Machine Tools and Production Engineering WZL, RWTH Aachen University, Chair of Production Engineering, Steinbachstrasse 19, D-52074 Aachen, Germany | Laboratory for Machine Tools and Production Engineering WZL, RWTH Aachen University, Chair of Production Engineering, Steinbachstrasse 19, D-52074 Aachen, Germany

Reference: International Conference on Product Lifecycle Management 2009 pp. 255 - 264

Abstract/Summary: The need for lower costs, more quality and shorter lead time as well as social responsibility leads companies to new challenges. Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) implies advantages to overcome those challenges by closer collaboration in all departments along the value chain. Despite those advantages, successful PLM implementations are rare. Among other things, the reasons for those failures are inaccurate PLM concepts in the beginning or bad PLM rollouts. In literature there are different approaches to design a PLM concept or to manage the PLM rollout. But all have in common that they do not take human behaviour into consideration. This paper will investigate the interdependency of human collaboration and PLM to develop a framework of a design model for a negotiation based PLM implementation.

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